AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

432 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A +315%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

0.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce 9700M GTS

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

480

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.72 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

127.2 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

G94

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

240 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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