AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6870M AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile +52%

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

VS

Radeon 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1287 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

800

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.59 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.647 TFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.647 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Polaris 23

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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