AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A +193%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jul 2014

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

938 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

480

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GF117

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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