Quadro FX 1600M vs Radeon HD 6550M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1009not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.62no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameLexingtonG84
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date26 November 2010 (13 years ago)1 June 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149.90

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 cores40032
Core clock speed600 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate12.0010.00
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2016

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 sizedlarge
InterfaceMXM-IIMXM-HE

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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s25.6 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2010 1 June 2007
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 50 Watt

HD 6550M has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 92.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550M and Quadro FX 1600M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6550M is a notebook graphics card while Quadro FX 1600M is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6550M
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