NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A 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 GTX 850A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock936MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

240 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850A +149%

1.198 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 800A

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Base Clock

-

936 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

640

Shading Units

400

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

1198 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Lexington

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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