AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +335%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

20

-

480

Shading Units

1600

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Cypress

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

334 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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