Radeon HD 8550M and Radeon HD 8590M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550M
Radeon HD 8590M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Sun
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
850 MHz
825 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
620 MHz
Floating-point performance
544.0 gflops
528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
384
Texture fill rate
17.00
16.50
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131