Radeon HD 8240 IGP vs Radeon HD 3550
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8240 IGP |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3550 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8240 IGP
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8240 IGP | | Radeon HD 3550 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Kalindi (Kalindi LP) | vs | RV620 (RV620 PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 110 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,178 million | vs | 181 million |
| Shaders | 128 | vs | 40 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 400 MHz | vs | 594 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 4 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8240 IGP | | Radeon HD 3550 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | vs | 396 MHz
792 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8240 IGP | | Radeon HD 3550 | |
|---|
| TDP | 15 watts | vs | 30 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Nov 2013 | vs | 4 Aug 2008 |
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
1.60 GP/s
Radeon HD 3550
2.38 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
3.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 3550
2.38 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
0.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 3550
6.34 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
102.40 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 3550
47.52 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better