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The 5500M has 1536 stream processors, and the 5300M only has 1280 stream processors. HBM2 also uses less power, which frees up some much-needed thermal room for the GPU to utilize, as most GPUs on the 16-inch MacBook Pro's have TDP's in the realm of 50 watts.īut the real gains in performance come from the GPU itself.
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That's the same bandwidth as six 1GB GDDR6 chips, but with more memory in about one fourth the area. The 5600M has two stacks of 4GB each, delivering 384 GB/s of bandwidth in a compact space. It takes the memory off-board from the GPU, and embeds it onto an interposer. HBM2 is more about delivering high bandwidth in a smaller space. Of course, we can't give full credit to the HBM2 memory.