AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M 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 12.80GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A +271%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jan 2011

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

480

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

12W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GF119

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

79 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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