NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M 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 GT 550M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A +85%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

Radeon HD 6550A

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 500M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Pinewood

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

Pinewood PRO

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 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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