GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 6550M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1009not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10076
Power efficiency3.77no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameLexingtonGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date26 November 2010 (13 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 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 cores4002048
Core clock speed600 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1155 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate12.0073.92
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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-IIPCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s96 GB/s
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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2010 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 30 Watt

HD 6550M has 15.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 2050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550M and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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