AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

208 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560M +23%

0.595 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

VS

GeForce GTX 560M

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

May 2011

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

400

Shading Units

192

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

24

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.80 GTexel/s

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

595.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

49.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

GF116

-

GPU Variant

N12E-GS-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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