Radeon RX 6550S vs GeForce G205M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1417not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.20no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)
GPU code nameC79Navi 24
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date8 January 2009 (16 years ago)4 January 2023 (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 cores161024
Core clock speed450 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2400 MHz
Number of transistors314 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate3.600153.6
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPS4.915 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs864
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2009 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 65 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 50 Watt

GeForce G205M has 257.1% lower power consumption.

RX 6550S, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 983.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce G205M and Radeon RX 6550S. We've got no test results to judge.

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NVIDIA GeForce G205M
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