AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

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AMD Radeon HD 6550M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (26W vs 30W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

400 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 +66%

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

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Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Jan 2010

Vancouver

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

10

-

400

Shading Units

800

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.00 GTexel/s

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

26W

TDP

30W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

Broadway

-

GPU Variant

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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