AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A 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 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock936MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A +126%

1.198 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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GeForce GTX 850A

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

902 MHz

-

Boost Clock

936 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.98 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1198 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GM107

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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