AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A 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 6550A 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

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

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M +3%

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jul 2014

All-In-One

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

5

-

480

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Sun

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

104 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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