AMD Radeon HD 8830M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8830M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8830M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock625MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8830M +51%

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8830M

VS

Radeon HD 6550A

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Feb 2011

Solar System

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

575 MHz

Base Clock

-

625 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

6

640

Shading Units

480

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

800.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

50.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Pinewood

Venus LE (216-0846030)

GPU Variant

Pinewood PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

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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