AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD FirePro W5170M

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD FirePro W5170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M +124%

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Aug 2014

All-In-One

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

10

-

480

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Tropo

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

123 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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