AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M 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 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

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

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +93%

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Apr 2012

All-In-One

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/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

12.80 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Heathrow

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

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

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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