
Radeon HD 8850M and HD Graphics 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8850M vs HD Graphics 5500
Radeon HD 8850M
1002
HD Graphics 5500
598
Radeon HD 8850M
HD Graphics 5500
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Gen. 8 Broadwell (2014−2015)
GPU code name
Venus
Broadwell GT2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2012
January 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x1
Boost clock speed
725 MHz
950 MHz
Core clock speed
575 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
24
Power consumption (TDP)
-
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.00
22.80
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.80