AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8550M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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 6 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition +84%

1.005 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

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Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jan 2010

Solar System

Generation

Manhattan

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

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

10

-

320

Shading Units

800

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.05 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.12 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1005 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

30W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Broadway

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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