AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD Radeon E8870

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD Radeon E8870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870 +190%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

Radeon E8870

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Sep 2015

All-In-One

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

12

-

480

Shading Units

768

24

TMUs

48

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

16.00 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Saturn

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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