AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M +42%

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce GT 740M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jun 2013

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.36 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

31.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GK208

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

GT 740M

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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