Radeon HD 8550M and Radeon 540X - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550M
Radeon 540X
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Sun
Lexa
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
August 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
850 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
544.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
512
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.00
33.47
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131