AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 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 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +605%

3.723 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

May 2015

All-In-One

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

32

-

480

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.09 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

116.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.723 TFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.723 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

232.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Amethyst

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

5 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

366 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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