Radeon HD 6740G2 and GeForce GT 550M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6740G2
GeForce GT 550M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
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N12P-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2011
January 2011
Interface
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PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
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None
Core clock speed
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740 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
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284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
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585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
880
96
Power consumption (TDP)
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35 Watt
Texture fill rate
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11.8 billion/sec
Memory type
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DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
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1536 MB
Memory bus width
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128 Bit
Memory clock speed
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900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
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28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
11
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
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N/A
Optimus
-
+