AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +709%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1404 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

480

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GP106

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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