AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230 +48%

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Feb 2019

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1519 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

480

Shading Units

256

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

GP108

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

74 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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