Radeon HD 6740G2 and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6740G2

Radeon HD 8550M

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

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Sun

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

June 2011

November 2012

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x8

Boost clock speed

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850 MHz

Core clock speed

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700 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

544.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

-

690 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

880

384

Texture fill rate

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17.00

Memory type

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DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

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1 GB

Memory bus width

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64 Bit

Memory clock speed

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1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

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14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

11

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

-

1.2

OpenGL

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4.6

Shader Model

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5.1

Vulkan

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1.2.131