AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 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 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +1323%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jun 2017

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1290 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

480

Shading Units

2560

24

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

150W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GP104

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

314 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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