GeForce 8200M G vs Radeon HD 6550M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1014not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.65no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameLexingtonMCP77MV MCP79MVL
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date26 November 2010 (13 years ago)3 June 2008 (16 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 cores4008
Core clock speed600 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no data

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIno data

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 typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed900 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2010 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm

HD 6550M has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550M and GeForce 8200M G. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6550M
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