Radeon HD 6550D IGP vs Radeon HD 6450

Radeon HD 6550D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jun 2011
Radeon HD 6550D IGP
Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6550D IGP

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450

47 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6550D IGP .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6550D IGP

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6550D IGP

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6550D IGPRadeon HD 6450
GPU NameBeaverCreek ()vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process32 nmvs40 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors1,450 millionvs370 million
Shaders400vs160
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs20vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6550D IGPRadeon HD 6450
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs64 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6550D IGPRadeon HD 6450
TDP65 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date20 Jun 2011vs7 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6550D IGP
    4.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6550D IGP
    12.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6550D IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6550D IGP
    480.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better