Radeon HD 8550M and Radeon HD 8830M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550M
Radeon HD 8830M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Sun
Venus
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
December 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
850 MHz
625 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
575 MHz
Floating-point performance
544.0 gflops
800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
640
Texture fill rate
17.00
25.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
32 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