AMD Cayman
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6550A
AMD Cayman
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6550A

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon HD 6550A. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
758
TeraScale 3
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Cayman
Code name
Pinewood
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
7 February 2011 (10 years ago)
$17.44
Price now
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Cayman
GPU code name
Pinewood
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon HD 6550A based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
480
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Core clock speed
550 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
627 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
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Texture fill rate
13.20
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Floating-point performance
624.0 gflops
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
2,640 million
Number of transistors
627 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
35 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon HD 6550A.

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Interface
MXM-A (3.0)

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon HD 6550A can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon HD 6550A, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon HD 6550A. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon HD 6550A graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or AMD Radeon HD 6550A good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon HD 6550A
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

More pipelines (1536 vs 480)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6550A

3.25% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Cayman or AMD Radeon HD 6550A?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6550A .

AMD Cayman versus AMD Radeon HD 6550A performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cayman
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 6550A