Radeon HD 6630M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6630M
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Whistler-LP
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
485 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
384
Power consumption (TDP)
26 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
12.00
17.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 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