AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs AMD FirePro W6170M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

AMD FirePro W6170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Boost Clock850MHz

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M +262%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

FirePro W6170M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Aug 2014

Solar System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

14

-

320

Shading Units

896

20

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Emerald

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5

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