Radeon HD 6640G2 vs HD 6550A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking989not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.71no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code namePinewoodno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 February 2011 (14 years ago)14 June 2011 (14 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 cores480560
Core clock speed550 MHzno data
Number of transistors627 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate13.20no data
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs24no data
L1 Cache48 KBno data
L2 Cache256 KBno data

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
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)no data

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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 outputsno data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2011 14 June 2011

HD 6640G2 has an age advantage of 4 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550A and Radeon HD 6640G2. We've got no test results to judge.

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