Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs HD 6550M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1016not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.61no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameLexingtonSun
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date26 November 2010 (14 years ago)1 March 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores400320
Core clock speed600 MHz750 MHz
Boost clock speedno data825 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.0016.50
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS0.528 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2020

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2010 1 March 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

R5 M230 Rebrand has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

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