GeForce GT 710 OEM vs Radeon HD 6550A

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking921not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.60no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code namePinewoodGK208B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 February 2011 (13 years ago)9 April 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores480192
Core clock speed550 MHz797 MHz
Number of transistors627 million915 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate13.2012.75
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPS0.306 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit32 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s7.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-3.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2011 9 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

HD 6550A has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GT 710 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550A and GeForce GT 710 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6550A is a notebook card while GeForce GT 710 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6550A
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