AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs AMD Radeon HD 6310

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6550M and AMD Radeon HD 6310 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

AMD Radeon HD 6310

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550M

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
5x more pipelines: 400 vs 80

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	400 vs 80

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6310

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6550M	AMD Radeon HD 6310
Geekbench - OpenCL		1853
PassMark - G2D Mark		35
PassMark - G3D Mark		122
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		819
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		819
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1311
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1311

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6550M	AMD Radeon HD 6310
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Terascale 2
Code name	Capilano	Zacate
Launch date	26 November 2010	16 November 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	1609
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	400	80
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt
Transistor count	627 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0	1