AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs AMD Radeon HD 6430M

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AMD Radeon HD 8550M

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6430M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M +255%

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6430M

0.153 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

Radeon HD 6430M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

2

-

320

Shading Units

160

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.920 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.840 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

153.6 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Seymour

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

Seymour LP S3 (216-0809020)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

67 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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