AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 2 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +261%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

22

-

480

Shading Units

1408

24

TMUs

88

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

25.60 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Cayman

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

389 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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