AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Seymour Redwood
GPU variant Seymour XTX (216-0810005) Redwood PRO2
Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 370 million 627 million
Die size 67 mm² 104 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 4th, 2011
Generation Vancouver (HD 6400M)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor Manhattan
Successor London

Clocks

GPU clock 800 MHz 550 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 3.2 Gbps effective 800 MHz 3.2 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 25.60 GB/s 51.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 160 320
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 8
Compute units 2 4
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB 256 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 3.200 GPixel/s 4.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 6.400 GTexel/s 8.800 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 256.0 GFLOPS 352.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP unknown 39 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA
Slot width Single-slot
Length 165 mm 6.5 inches
Suggested PSU 200 W
Power connectors None
Board number C021, C025, C029

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.0

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Feb 9th, 2010
Generation Evergreen
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 29 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R700
Successor Northern Islands

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