Radeon HD 6550A vs GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
Aggregate performance score
We've compared GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition and Radeon HD 6550A, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.
GTX 780M Mac Edition outperforms HD 6550A by a whopping 266% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 557 | 914 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 3.80 | 3.62 |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) |
| GPU code name | GK104 | Pinewood |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 8 November 2013 (11 years ago) | 7 February 2011 (13 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 cores | 1536 | 480 |
| Core clock speed | 771 MHz | 550 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 797 MHz | no data |
| Number of transistors | 3,540 million | 627 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 122 Watt | 35 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 102.0 | 13.20 |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.448 TFLOPS | 0.528 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 32 | 8 |
| TMUs | 128 | 24 |
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).
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | MXM-A (3.0) |
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 type | GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1250 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 160.0 GB/s | 25.6 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 Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | N/A |
| CUDA | 3.0 | - |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 6.69 | 1.83 |
| Recency | 8 November 2013 | 7 February 2011 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 2 GB |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 122 Watt | 35 Watt |
GTX 780M Mac Edition has a 265.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.
HD 6550A, on the other hand, has 248.6% lower power consumption.
The GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 6550A in performance tests.
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