AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 26W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M +1746%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

VS

GeForce 8400M GS

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

May 2007

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

400

Shading Units

16

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

25.60 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

26W

TDP

11W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

G86

-

GPU Variant

NB8M-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

127 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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