AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M +13%

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

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Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Nov 2010

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

5

320

Shading Units

400

20

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Lexington

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

26W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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