AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 38W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A +100%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jun 2009

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

480

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GT215

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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