AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8550M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition +47%

0.804 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

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Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Aug 2009

Solar System

Generation

M9x

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

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

10

-

320

Shading Units

800

20

TMUs

40

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

8.048 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.12 GTexel/s

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544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

804.8 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

M98

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

M98 L2 (216-0732019)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.1

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