GeForce GT 550M and Radeon HD 6550M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 550M
Radeon HD 6550M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
Capilano-PRO
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
November 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
740 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
400
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
26 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
12.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-