AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

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AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6550A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 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 R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +605%

3.723 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6550A

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Feb 2011

Crystal System

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

6

2048

Shading Units

480

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

116.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

3.723 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.723 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

232.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Pinewood

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

Pinewood PRO

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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