NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 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, Technologies. 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 RTX 2060 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
4x more pipelines: 1920 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
13.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9723 vs 708

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 January 2019 vs 7 February 2011
Pipelines	1920 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9723 vs 708

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 609 vs 410

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	609 vs 410

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9723

708

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

410

609

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark	9723	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	410	609
Geekbench - OpenCL	64091
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	234.866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2849.031
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.956
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	147.291
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	809.639
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5513

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	TeraScale 2
Code name	TU106	Pinewood
Launch date	6 January 2019	7 February 2011
Place in performance rating	242	245
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1920	480
Core clock speed		550 MHz
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Transistor count		627 million
Video outputs and ports
G-SYNC support
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.1	11.2 (11_0)
Vulkan
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Technologies
Multi Monitor
VR Ready