AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

96 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M +30%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Apr 2013

All-In-One

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

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

6

-

480

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

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528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Mars

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

77 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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