AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 +112%

1.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

All-In-One

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

10

-

480

Shading Units

800

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1120 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Broadway

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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