Radeon HD 8550M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon HD 8550M is AMD's 2014 entry dedicated GPU from the first GCN generation — a bottom-decile record in this catalog, with no public benchmark entries filed at all. 15 games are benchmarked at 1080p, and one catalog model matches.

Where the HD 8550M sits in 2026

The composite score of 1.4 ranks #319 of 341 — between the NVS 4200M (1.6), UHD 600 (1.6) and HD 8330 (1.4) above, and the UHD 710 (1.4), HD 8280 (1.3) and the UHD 615 record (1.3) below. Twenty-two places from the bottom: as deep as dedicated graphics goes in this catalog.

What the chip brings

The record lists 1 GB of DDR3, 320 cores, a 28 nm GCN 1.0 process and 0.54 TFLOPS. No public benchmark entries — PassMark, Time Spy and Fire Strike are all unrecorded for this chip, so the game table below is the only evidence, and this page cites nothing else.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: legacy titles at 140–240; Valorant at 30, Dota 2 at 16, Forza Horizon 4 at 8, The Witcher 3 at 7, Counter-Strike 2 and Fortnite at 4, Cyberpunk 2077 at 3, Battlefield 5, Far Cry 5, Forza Horizon 5 and Metro Exodus at 2. The table is era-typical for entry GCN: light titles only.

Laptops that carry it

One host: the HP G405s (2013) at $149 — a budget 14-inch machine of the chip's exact market and era. Its catalog metrics are the lowest in this batch of pages (performance index 0.69, best CPU score 0), which frames the whole listing honestly: a $149 machine at the floor of every scale.

Bottom line

The HD 8550M page is floor documentation: no public benches on record, a game table that tops out at light play, a #319 placement, and a $149 host whose metrics match. It completes this catalog's coverage of the GCN 1.0 entry tier alongside the HD 8770M record nearby in the ranking. As a purchase, its host is a browsing machine; as a datapoint, it is the bottom of the dedicated-GPU scale.