AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

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AMD Radeon HD 6550M

AMD Radeon HD 8730A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

16 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8730A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730A +11%

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

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Radeon HD 8730A

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Apr 2013

Vancouver

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

700 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

6

-

400

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

Mars

-

GPU Variant

Mars M2 LP (216-0842009)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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