GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs Radeon HD 6550A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking921not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.58no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code namePinewoodGF106
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 February 2011 (13 years ago)11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$129

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 cores480144
Core clock speed550 MHz790 MHz
Number of transistors627 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt106 Watt
Texture fill rate13.2018.96
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPS0.455 TFLOPS
ROPs824
TMUs2424

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).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data210 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s96 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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2011 11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1536 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 106 Watt

HD 6550A has an age advantage of 3 months, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 202.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550A and GeForce GTS 450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6550A is a notebook card while GeForce GTS 450 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6550A
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