NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 550 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
7.5x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
18.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12911 vs 708
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 808 vs 609

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2019 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12911 vs 708
PassMark - G2D Mark	808 vs 609

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

3.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 120 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12911

708

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

808

609

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark	12911	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	808	609
Geekbench - OpenCL	60935
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	208.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2573.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	16.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	145.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	926.614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1062

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	TeraScale 2
Code name	TU116	Pinewood
Launch date	22 February 2019	7 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$279
Place in performance rating	220	223
Price now	$279.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	67.32
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	6,600 million	627 million
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Pipelines		480
Texture fill rate		15.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	1600 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory type		DDR3