AMD Radeon HD 8830M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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AMD Radeon HD 8830M

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8830M 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 8830M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock625MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8830M +66%

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8830M

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Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2010

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

575 MHz

Base Clock

-

625 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

5

-

640

Shading Units

400

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

800.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

50.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

26W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Lexington

Venus LE (216-0846030)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

334 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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