NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 35W)

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A +193%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

VS

Radeon HD 6550A

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 700A

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

775 MHz

Base Clock

-

938 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Pinewood

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Pinewood PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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