Radeon RX 560 and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
Radeon RX 560
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 21
Sun
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2017
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1275 MHz
850 MHz
Core clock speed
1175 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,611 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
81.60
17.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131