VIA Chrome9 HC vs Radeon HD 8550M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking971not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)no data
GPU code nameSunVN896
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date13 July 2014 (10 years ago)1 March 2007 (17 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 cores3203
Core clock speed650 MHz1 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors690 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nmno data
Texture fill rate17.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.544 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no data

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8no 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 typeDDR3onboard
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed900 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)onboard
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 July 2014 1 March 2007

HD 8550M has an age advantage of 7 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8550M and VIA Chrome9 HC. We've got no test results to judge.


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