AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (775MHz vs 550MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +125%

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7550M

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

Radeon HD 7550M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2012

Solar System

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

450 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

550 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

5

-

640

Shading Units

400

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.00 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.0 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Thames

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

Thames LP

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

104 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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