NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A 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 960A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A +189%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 900A

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/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

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Lexington

N16P-GX-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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