Radeon HD 6550A and GeForce GT 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6550A vs GeForce GT 240
Radeon HD 6550A
728
GeForce GT 240
525
Radeon HD 6550A
GeForce GT 240
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Pinewood
GT215
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
November 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
550 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
624.0 gflops
257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
96
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
69 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105C C
Texture fill rate
13.20
17.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
DVIVGAHDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.2
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A