The AMD Radeon HD 6550M (or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6550) is a renamed version of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650. As the 5650, the HD6550M supports DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0, OpenGL 4.1, OpenCL 1.1, and Directcompute 11. The integrated video processor is still an UVD 2.2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 video decoding.
The gaming performance should be somewhere between a HD 5650 and a HD 5730 depending on the used graphics memory. Therfore, demanding games like Risen or Battlefield Bad Company 2 can be played in medium to high details fluently. Less demanding games like Fifa 11 should run fluently in Full HD resolution and maximum detail settings.
The power consumption is between 15-30 Watt for the chip (according to AMD). This fits perfectly the HD 5650 (15-19 Watt) and 5730 (26 Watt) and is therefore best suited for 15" laptops.
Radeon HD 6500M Series
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| Codename | Capilano-PRO | |||||||||
| Architecture | Terascale 2 | |||||||||
| Pipelines | 400 - unified | |||||||||
| Core Speed | 600 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | |||||||||
| Memory Type | DDR3 | |||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 1024 MB | |||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | |||||||||
| API | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 | |||||||||
| Man. Technology | 40 nm | |||||||||
| Notebook Size | medium sized | |||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 26.11.2010 | |||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.amd.com | |||||||||
- Average benchmark valuesThe following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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| Call of Duty: Black Ops | 76.3 | 57.8 | 42.7 | 22.9 | ||
| Fifa 11 | 268 | 149 | 87 | 47.2 | ||
| Mafia 2 | 61.5 | 42 | 33 | 20 | ||
| StarCraft 2 | 184.8 | 44 | 28 | 15.8 | ||
| Metro 2033 | 56.8 | 26.1 | 13.9 | 4.6 | ||
| Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 63.8 | 48 | 33 | 14.7 | ||
| CoD Modern Warfare 2 | 125.8 | 45.9 | 37.6 | 23.4 | ||
| Risen | 71 | 35 | 27 | 16.8 | ||
| Resident Evil 5 | 98.7 | 48.1 | 27 | |||
| Need for Speed Shift | 69.3 | 42 | 30 | 19.7 | ||
| Colin McRae: DIRT 2 | 72 | 47 | 27 | 15.7 | ||
| Anno 1404 | 125.1 | 29.2 | ||||
| F.E.A.R. 2 | 144.1 | 76.7 | 50.4 | 26.3 | ||
| Left 4 Dead | 164.5 | 105.7 | ||||
| Far Cry 2 | 98.6 | 47.1 | 15 | |||
| Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare | 152 | 66 | 35 | |||
| Crysis - GPU Benchmark | 98.1 | 60.6 | 31.1 | 8.2 | ||
| Crysis - CPU Benchmark | 106.3 | 53.4 | 25.9 | 7.5 | ||
| Call of Juarez Benchmark | 28.4 | |||||
| Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark | 189 | |||||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 10 7 | 1 9 3 1 | 6 10 2 1 | 15 1 | | |
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