NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M 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 GTX 950M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M +172%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

Radeon HD 6550A

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

640

Shading Units

480

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Pinewood

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Pinewood PRO

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

104 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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