AMD Radeon™ HD 8500M and HD 8600M Series Graphics

Overview

Unleash your notebook’s true potential with the outstanding performance of AMD Radeon™ HD 8600M and HD 8500M Series Graphics

Performance: AMD GCN Architecture – offers an exceptional graphics experience to the GPU accelerated features of Windows 8, plus all your latest games and applications

Battery Life: Enjoy outstanding notebook performance with great battery life using AMD’s Enduro™ technology, which scales performance of your notebooks graphics when you need it, and helps conserve battery life when you don’t.

Compute: Enjoy award-winning, multimedia HD image quality and playback capabilities with AMD App Acceleration, which also provides unprecedented performance in everything from office applications and browsers to video editors

Specifications

AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series GPU Full Specifications

	AMD Radeon™ HD 8550M Series GPU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8570M Series GPU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8670M Series GPU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8690M Series GPU
Engine Clock	650 MHz (up to 700 MHz with boost)	650 MHz (up to 700 MHz with boost)	775 MHz (up to 825 MHz with boost)	775 MHz (up to 825 MHz with boost)
Memory	1GB DDR3	1GB GDDR5	1GB DDR3	1GB GDDR5
Memory Clock	900 MHz (1.8 Gbps)	1125 MHz (4.5 Gbps)	900 MHz (1.8 Gbps)	1125 MHz (4.5 Gbps)
Memory Bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	36 GB/s	14.4 GB/s	36 GB/s
Peak Single Precision Compute Throughput	537 GFLOPS	537 GFLOPS	633 GFLOPS	633 GFLOPS
Peak Double Precision Compute Throughput	33 GFLOPS	33 GFLOPS	39 GFLOPS	39 GFLOPS
GCN Architecture¹	6 Compute Units (384 Stream Processors) 24 Texture Units 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units 8 Color ROP Units 256KB L2 read/write cache	6 Compute Units (384 Stream Processors) 24 Texture Units 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units 8 Color ROP Units 256KB L2 read/write cache	6 Compute Units (384 Stream Processors) 24 Texture Units 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units 8 Color ROP Units 256KB L2 read/write cache	6 Compute Units (384 Stream Processors) 24 Texture Units 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units 8 Color ROP Units 256KB L2 read/write cache
Memory Interface	64-bit DDR3	64-bit GDDR5	64-bit DDR3	64-bit GDDR5
Bus Interface ¹	PCI Express 3.0 x8	PCI Express 3.0 x8	PCI Express 3.0 x8	PCI Express 3.0 x8
Graphics	DirectX^® 11.1	DirectX^® 11.1	DirectX^® 11.1	DirectX^® 11.1
AMD Technology	AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology ⁵ Up to 2 displays supported AMD App Acceleration ² AMD HD3D technology ⁶ AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology ³ AMD PowerTune technology ³ AMD ZeroCore Power technology ³ AMD Enduro™ technology ⁴	AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology ⁵ Up to 2 displays supported AMD App Acceleration ² AMD HD3D technology ⁶ AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology ³ AMD PowerTune technology ³ AMD ZeroCore Power technology ³ AMD Enduro™ technology ⁴	AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology ⁵ Up to 2 displays supported AMD App Acceleration ² AMD HD3D technology ⁶ AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology ³ AMD PowerTune technology ³ AMD ZeroCore Power technology ³ AMD Enduro™ technology ⁴	AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology ⁵ Up to 2 displays supported AMD App Acceleration ² AMD HD3D technology ⁶ AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology ³ AMD PowerTune technology ³ AMD ZeroCore Power technology ³ AMD Enduro™ technology ⁴

Footnotes

Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner, wirelessly enabled HDTV) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features. HD Video display requires an HD video source. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.

The GCN Architecture and its associated features (PCI Express® 3.0, AMD Enduro™, AMD ZeroCore Power technology, etc.) are applicable to select AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M and HD 8000M Series Graphics. Not all technologies are supported in all system configurations—check with your system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for OpenCL™ or DirectCompute (including AMD’s Universal Video Decoder (UVD)). Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
AMD PowerTune, AMD’s Power Gating support, AMD ZeroCore Power and other AMD power management technologies are a family of technologies offered with certain AMD Radeon™ graphics products, which are designed to intelligently manage GPU power consumption in response to certain GPU load conditions. Not all products feature all technologies—check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
AMD Enduro™ technology, AMD Enduro™ technology automatically turns off the AMD Radeon™ discrete GPU for non-intensive applications to help maximize battery life for more time unplugged, and requires either an AMD A-Series APU or an Intel processor, plus an AMD Radeon™ discrete graphics card and is available on Windows® 7 and Windows® 8 Standard and Professional editions. Linux OS supports manual switching which requires restart of X-Server to switch between graphics solutions. With AMD Enduro™ technology, full enablement of all discrete graphics video and display features may not be supported on all systems (e.g. OpenGL applications will run on the integrated GPU or the APU as the case may be). Always check with your system manufacturer for specific mode capabilities and supported technologies.
AMD Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors are required. Limit two active adapters. Support for six simultaneous displays may require complementary products compatible with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport. Maximum number of configured displays may vary - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.
AMD HD3D is a technology designed to enable stereoscopic 3D support in games, movies and/or photos. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies. A list of supported stereoscopic 3D hardware is available at http://www.amd.com/HD3D.
AMD Radeon™ Dual Graphics requires an AMD A -Series APU plus an AMD Radeon™ discrete graphics configuration and is available on Windows® 7 and Windows ® 8 Operating systems. Linux OS supports manual switching which requires restart of X-Server to engage and/or disengage the discrete graphics processor for dual graphics capabilities. Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner, wirelessly enabled HDTV) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features. HD Video display requires an HD video source. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.