
Radeon HD 6570M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6570M
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Capilano
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2010
November 2012
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
520.0 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
384
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
13.00
17.00
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131