AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1301MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3104 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +1666%

9.326 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jun 2018

All-In-One

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1138 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1301 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

56

-

480

Shading Units

3584

24

TMUs

224

8

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.26 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

291.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.65 TFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.326 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

582.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

120W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Vega 10

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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