AMD Radeon E9172 MXM vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

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AMD Radeon E9172 MXM AMD Radeon HD 6550A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9172 MXM +136%

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

VS

Radeon HD 6550A

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Feb 2011

Embedded

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

6

512

Shading Units

480

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Pinewood

E9170

GPU Variant

Pinewood PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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