AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M +80%

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jun 2011

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

480

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GF114

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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