AMD Radeon HD 6530M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6530M and AMD Radeon HD 6550M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6530M

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550M

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Around 20% better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 400.0 gflops

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops vs 400.0 gflops

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6530M	AMD Radeon HD 6550M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Capilano	Capilano
Launch date	26 November 2010	26 November 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	400.0 gflops	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	400	400
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt	26 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	627 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory	0	0