APU A8-5550M Quad-Core is a fast-middle-class mobile processor based on the 32nm, Richland micro-architecture.
It offers 4 Cores, initially clocked at 2.1GHz that go up to 3.1GHz, in Turbo Mode and 4MB of L2 Cache. It features integrated Graphics called Radeon HD 8550G which offer 256 Shader Processing Units and are substantially faster than previous Radeon HD 7640G. The max memory speed supported by the CPU is DDR3-1600. It consumes up to 35 Watt.
This CPU should only be paired with performance GPUs such as Radeon HD 7850M/GeForce GTX 660M.
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