AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

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AMD Radeon HD 6550M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 33W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A +56%

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

VS

GeForce GT 740A

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Aug 2013

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

400

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.36 GTexel/s

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

31.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

GK208

-

GPU Variant

GT 740M

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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