Radeon HD 6550M and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6550M
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
Capilano-PRO
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2010
June 2007
Interface
MXM-II
MXM-II
Core clock speed
600 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
16
Power consumption (TDP)
26 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.00
3.600
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A