AMD FirePro M5950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950 +45%

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

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Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2010

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

5

480

Shading Units

400

24

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

Lexington

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

26W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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