AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230 +13%

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

VS

Radeon R5 A230

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Jan 2014

Vancouver

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

5

400

Shading Units

320

20

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

Jet

-

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

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

Board Design

26W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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