Radeon HD 7540D IGP vs HD 8550 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameTurksScrapper
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 October 2013 (11 years ago)2 October 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$67

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 cores480192
Core clock speed650 MHz760 MHz
Number of transistors716 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate15.609.120
Floating-point processing power0.624 TFLOPS0.2918 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs2412

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 October 2013 2 October 2012
Chip lithography 40 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 65 Watt

HD 8550 OEM has an age advantage of 1 year, and 8.3% lower power consumption.

HD 7540D IGP, on the other hand, has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8550 OEM and Radeon HD 7540D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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