AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A +1720%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

May 2007

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

480

Shading Units

16

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

G86

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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