ATI Radeon 8500 vs Iris Graphics 550

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking705not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency17.80no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameSkylake GT3eR200
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)14 August 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384no data
Core clock speed300 MHz275 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm+150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate48.002.200
Floating-point processing power0.768 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64
TMUs488

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing BusAGP 4x
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared64 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared275 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8.8 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)8.1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan1.3N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Iris Graphics 550 1427
+23683%
ATI 8500 6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 14 August 2001
Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 23 Watt

Iris Graphics 550 has an age advantage of 14 years, a 971.4% more advanced lithography process, and 53.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Iris Graphics 550 and Radeon 8500. We've got no test results to judge.


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