AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 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 Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1824 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580 +947%

5.53 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580

VS

Radeon HD 6550A

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Feb 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

217.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

6

-

2304

Shading Units

480

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Pinewood

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

Pinewood PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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