AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs AMD FirePro W7170M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

AMD FirePro W7170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 100W)

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M +516%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

VS

FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Oct 2015

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

32

-

400

Shading Units

2048

20

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

Amethyst

-

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5 billion

334 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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