NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 1110 MHz vs 550 MHz
16000x more texture fill rate: 249.6 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
10.7x more pipelines: 5120 vs 480
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1110 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	249.6 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	5120 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 115 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 115 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	26458
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	26458
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	12868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	12868
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	20579
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	20579
PassMark - G3D Mark		708
PassMark - G2D Mark		609

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	TeraScale 2
Code name	GA104	Pinewood
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	7 February 2011
Place in performance rating	45	213
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz
Core clock speed	1110 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	249.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	15.97 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.97 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5120	480
Pixel fill rate	124.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	249.6 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	627 million
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready