AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +1465%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

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GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Jun 2017

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1290 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

400

Shading Units

2560

20

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

150W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

GP104

-

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

314 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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