NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and AMD Radeon HD 6550A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 550 MHz
10070.5x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
2.9x more pipelines: 1408 vs 480
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
18x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12749 vs 708
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 805 vs 609

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 Oct 2019 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1408 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12749 vs 708
PassMark - G2D Mark	805 vs 609

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

3.6x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 125 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12749

708

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

805

609

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark	12749	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	805	609
Geekbench - OpenCL	62616
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	187.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2548.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	15.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	117.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	901.388
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5990

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	TeraScale 2
Code name	TU116	Pinewood
Launch date	29 Oct 2019	7 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$229
Place in performance rating	219	218
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.027 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408	480
Pixel fill rate	85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	6600 million	627 million
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	9 inches (229 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz