GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8670M
CORE STATE
Sun
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
975 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 550
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1183 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8670M
RX 550
Core Specs
Shading Units
320
512
+60.0%
Shaders
320
512
+60.0%
TMUs
20
32
+60.0%
ROPs
8
16
+100.0%
Compute Units
5
8
+60.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
925 MHz
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1183 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1024 MB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,024
2,048
+100.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
14.40 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
128 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.800 GPixel/s
18.93 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
19.50 GTexel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
624.0 GFLOPS
1,211.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
39.00 GFLOPS (1:16)
75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
1,211.4 GFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
—
50 W
TDP (W)
—
50
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Power Connectors
—
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Sun
Lexa
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8600M)
Polaris
(RX 500)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
690 million
2,200 million
Die Size
56 mm²
103 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
12.3M / mm²
21.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
—
Dual-slot
Length
—
145 mm
5.7 inches
Outputs
—
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
—
79 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
Arctic Islands
Successor
Gem System
Vega