AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6550M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and AMD Radeon HD 6550M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

618
Place in performance rating
745
GCN 1.2/2.0
Architecture
Terascale 2
Carrizo
Code name
Lexington
Laptop
Type
Laptop
4 June 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
26 November 2010 (11 years ago)
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Price now
$338
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Value for money
0.11
Carrizo
GPU code name
Capilano-PRO
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and AMD Radeon HD 6550M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
400
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Core clock speed
600 MHz
800 MHz
Boost Clock
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2410 Million
Transistor count
2,154 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12-35 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
26 Watt
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Texture fill rate
12.00
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Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
800 MHz
Boost clock speed
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2410 Million
Number of transistors
2,154 million
12-35 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
26 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and AMD Radeon HD 6550M.

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Interface
MXM-II
medium sized
Laptop size
medium sized

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 Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and AMD Radeon HD 6550M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
DDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64/128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
800 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and AMD Radeon HD 6550M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and AMD Radeon HD 6550M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
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OpenGL
4.4

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and AMD Radeon HD 6550M 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 Radeon R6 (Carrizo) or AMD Radeon HD 6550M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
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 Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

1.93% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (12-35 Watt vs 26 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6550M

More pipelines (400 vs 384)

So, AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) or AMD Radeon HD 6550M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) .

AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) versus AMD Radeon HD 6550M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
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