Radeon HD 8550G and Radeon R2 Graphics - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550G
Radeon R2 Graphics
Architecture
Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Richland
Beema
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2013
February 2015
Interface
IGP
IGP
Boost clock speed
720 MHz
-
Core clock speed
515 MHz
351 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
179.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,303 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
128
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.52
2.808
Memory type
System Shared
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
System Shared
Memory bus width
System Shared
System Shared
Memory clock speed
System Shared
System Shared
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131