AMD Radeon™ HD 6500M Series Graphics 

Overview 

Specifications 

• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
  • 400 Stream Processing Units
  • 20 Texture Units
  • 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 8 Color ROP Units
• GDDR5/DDR3 memory interface
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
• DirectX® 11 Evolved technology
  • DirectX® 11 support
    • Shader Model 5.0
    • DirectCompute 11
    • Programmable hardware tessellation unit
    • Accelerated multi-threading
    • HDR texture compression
    • Order-independent transparency
  • OpenGL 4.1 support
  • Image quality enhancement technology
    • Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
    • Adaptive anti-aliasing
    • Morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA)
    • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
    • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
• AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology³
  • Support for up to 6 simultaneous displays
    • Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
• AMD App Acceleration¹
  • OpenCL™ 1.1 support⁴
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^5,6,7
  • UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
    • MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
    • VC-1
    • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
    • Adobe® Flash®⁸
  • Enhanced video quality features
    • Advanced post-processing and scaling⁷
    • Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
    • Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
    • Independent video gamma control
    • Dynamic video range control
  • Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support⁹
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
• AMD HD3D technology²
  • Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
  • Stereoscopic 3D gaming support
  • 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
• Cutting-edge integrated display support
  • Dual-link DVI with HDCP¹⁰
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹¹
  • DisplayPort 1.1
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹¹
  • HDMI® 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
    • Max resolution: 1920x1200¹¹
  • VGA
  • Max resolution: 2048x1536¹¹
• Integrated HD audio controller
  • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI® or DisplayPort with no additional cables required
  • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ formats
• AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology
  • Dynamic power management with low power idle state
• AMD Catalyst™ software and HD video configuration software
  • Unified graphics display drivers
    • Certified for Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, and Windows® XP
  • AMD Catalyst Control Center™
    • Software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing special features of AMD Radeon™ products

Performance Specifications 

• Engine clock speed: 500-650 MHz
• Processing power (single precision): 400-520 GigaFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 500-650M polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 40-52 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 10-13 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 4-5.2 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 16-20.8 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 900 MHz GDDR5 or DDR3
• Memory data rate: 3.6 Gbps (GDDR5) or 1.8 Gbps (DDR3)
• Memory bandwidth: 57.6 GB/sec (GDDR5) or 28.8 GB/sec (DDR3)

Footnotes 

Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner, wirelessly enabled HDTV) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features. HD Video display requires an HD video source. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.

1. AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for OpenCL™ or DirectCompute (including AMD’s Unified Video Decoder (UVD)). Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
2. AMD HD3D is a technology designed to enable stereoscopic 3D support in games, movies and/or photos. Additional hardware (e.g. 3D enabled panels, 3D-enabled glasses/emitter, Blu-ray 3D drive) and/or software (e.g. Blu-ray 3D discs, 3D middleware, games) are required for the enablement of stereoscopic 3D. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.
3. AMD Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for spanning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant active adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required. AMD Eyefinity technology can support up to 6 displays using a single enabled AMD Radeon™ GPU with Windows Vista® or Windows® 7 operating systems – the number of displays may vary by system design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. SLS (“Single Large Surface”) functionality requires an identical display resolution on all configured displays.
4. OpenCL compliant SDK and driver release scheduled for later in 2011.
5. Accelerated transcoding requires application support for AMD App Acceleration. AMD App Acceleration works with applications designed to take advantage of its GPU acceleration capabilities.
6. Digital rights management restrictions may apply.
7. Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution.
8. Adobe Flash video acceleration and post-processing is supported for H.264-encoded content. Requires Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in or later version.
9. Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams.
10. Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
11. Some custom resolutions require user configuration.