AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6490M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M +112%

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

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Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jul 2014

Vancouver

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

5

-

160

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

6.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

256.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

Sun

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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