Radeon R5 M230 and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
Radeon R5 M230
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Jet / Sun
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
November 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
855 MHz
850 MHz
Compute units
5
-
Core clock speed
855 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
547.2 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
384
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
-
Texture fill rate
17.10
17.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_1)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
+
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-