AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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AMD Radeon HD 6550M

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 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 14.40GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand +13%

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

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Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

May 2014

Vancouver

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/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

6.800 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

Sun

-

GPU Variant

Sun LE

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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