AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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 R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +273%

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Nov 2010

Gem System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

5

-

896

Shading Units

400

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

26W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Lexington

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

160 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

2

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

3

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

4

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA P106M

5

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation

6

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

7

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon Pro 555

8

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon HD 6370M

9

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

10

AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon Pro W6600M

Related News

1

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

2

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

3

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

4

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

5

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

6

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

7

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

8

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

9

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

10

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes