AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs AMD Radeon HD 8590M

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AMD Radeon HD 6550M

AMD Radeon HD 8590M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8590M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

80 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8590M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock825MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8590M +10%

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

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Radeon HD 8590M

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Mar 2013

Vancouver

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

750 MHz

-

Boost Clock

825 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

5

-

400

Shading Units

320

20

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.50 GTexel/s

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

33.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

Sun

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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