NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 960 MHz vs 550 MHz
4x more pipelines: 1920 vs 480
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
8.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
16x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11355 vs 708

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	960 MHz vs 550 MHz
Pipelines	1920 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11355 vs 708

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 80 Watt
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 609 vs 540

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 80 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	609 vs 540

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

540

609

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11355

708

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5906
PassMark - G2D Mark	540	609
PassMark - G3D Mark	11355	708
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17150
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17150
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	TeraScale 2
Code name	TU106B	Pinewood
Launch date	29 January 2019	7 February 2011
Place in performance rating	215	218
Price now	$349.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	62.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	960 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1920	480
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	627 million
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		15.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.0	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s