NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

VS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 26W)

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M +1130%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 300M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

16

Shading Units

400

8

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.424 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

4.848 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

38.78 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Lexington

N11M-GE

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

14W

TDP

26W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

2

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs Intel Arc Pro A60M

3

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

4

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs AMD Radeon R9 M390X

5

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A

6

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

7

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max Q

8

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs AMD Radeon R7 M265

9

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs AMD Radeon E6760 PCIe

10

NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Related News

1

Apple's 2025 OS in Development: iOS 19 Codename 'Luck'

2

Apple's AI is Memory Hungry! The Entire iPhone 16 Lineup Comes with 8GB RAM

3

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

4

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

5

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

6

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

7

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

8

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

9

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

10

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2