Tesla P6 vs Radeon HD 6550D

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1099not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.10no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameSumoGP104
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date20 June 2011 (13 years ago)24 March 2017 (7 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 cores4002048
Core clock speed600 MHz1012 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1506 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate12.00192.8
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS6.169 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs20128

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).

InterfaceIGPMXM-B (3.0)
WidthIGPMXM Module
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 SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1502 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.3 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)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 June 2011 24 March 2017
Chip lithography 32 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 90 Watt

HD 6550D has 38.5% lower power consumption.

Tesla P6, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550D and Tesla P6. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6550D is a desktop card while Tesla P6 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6550D
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