AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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AMD Radeon R9 M470

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 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 M470 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +220%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

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Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

May 2016

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

12

Compute Units

5

-

768

Shading Units

400

48

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

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

26W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Lexington

Emerald PRO

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

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