AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand +135%

1.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jul 2014

Vancouver

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

5

800

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1280 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

Sun

Broadway XT

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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