AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A +41%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Mar 2009

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

480

Shading Units

128

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

G92

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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