AMD Radeon HD 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6550M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition +52%

0.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

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GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Apr 2013

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

-

400

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.600 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

729.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

30.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexington

GPU Name

GK107

-

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

26W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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