Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2 vs Radeon HD 8550M

Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2 Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE Release date: 1 Mar 2013

Radeon HD 8550M Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE Release date: 13 Jul 2014

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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Supports Mantle

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8550M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Supports Mantle

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2

Based on theoretical specifications.

Specifications

Core Configuration

	Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2		Radeon HD 8550M
GPU Name	Mars (Mars XT)	vs	Sun (Sun LE)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	77 mmÂ²	vs	77 mmÂ²
Transistors	1,040 million	vs	1,040 million
Shaders	384	vs	320
Compute Units	6	vs	5
Core clock	775 MHz	vs	650 MHz
ROPs	8	vs	8
TMUs	24	vs	20

Memory Configuration

	Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2		Radeon HD 8550M
Memory Type	DDR3	vs	DDR3
Bus Width	64 bit	vs	64 bit
Memory Speed	900 MHz 1800 MHz effective	vs	900 MHz 1800 MHz effective
Memory Size	1024 Mb	vs	1024 Mb

Additional details

	Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2		Radeon HD 8550M
TDP	0 watts	vs	0 watts
Release Date	1 Mar 2013	vs	13 Jul 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2
6.60 GP/s
Radeon HD 8550M
6.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2
19.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 8550M
17.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2
14.40 GB/s
Radeon HD 8550M
14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

Radeon HD 8670M Rev. 2
633.60 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8550M
544.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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