GeForce 305M and Radeon RX 6550S - video card comparison

GeForce 305M

Radeon RX 6550S

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

n11m-lp1

Navi 24

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2010

January 2023

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

2170 MHz

Core clock speed

525 MHz

-

CUDA cores

16

-

Floating-point performance

36.8 gflops

-

Gigaflops

55

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

14 Watt

50 Watt (35 - 50 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

4.200

153.6

Memory type

GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

Up to 512 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

11.2 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI

Portable Device Dependent

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

Power management

8.0

-