Radeon HD 6490M and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6490M vs Radeon HD 5550
Radeon HD 6490M
388
Radeon HD 5550
387
Radeon HD 6490M
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Seymour XT
Redwood
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
700 / 750 / 800 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
256 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.400
8.800
Memory type
DDR3/GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A