ATI Radeon HD 5630 vs HD 6550D

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1094	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.11	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Sumo	Redwood
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	20 June 2011 (13 years ago)	15 February 2011 (13 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 cores	400	320
Core clock speed	600 MHz	650 MHz
Number of transistors	1,178 million	627 million
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	39 Watt
Texture fill rate	12.00	10.40
Floating-point processing power	0.48 TFLOPS	0.416 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	8
TMUs	20	16

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).

Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	165 mm
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	System Shared	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	1 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	390 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	12.48 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 Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	20 June 2011	15 February 2011
Chip lithography	32 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	39 Watt

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