AMD Radeon R5 A255 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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AMD Radeon R5 A255

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A255 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 R5 A255 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock940MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A255 +50%

0.721 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A255

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Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Nov 2010

All-In-One

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

940 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

5

-

384

Shading Units

400

24

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

26W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

Lexington

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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