T550 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated398
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data37.26
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameMadisonTU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date22 April 2010 (14 years ago)May 2022 (2 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 cores4001024
Core clock speed650 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors627 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate13.00106.6
Floating-point processing power0.52 TFLOPS3.41 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2064

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed795 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.44 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 April 2010 on May 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 23 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5670 Mac Edition has 53.3% lower power consumption.

T550 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition and T550 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition is a notebook graphics card while T550 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition
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