NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M 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)

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M +280%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 500M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Granville

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

166 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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