NVIDIA GeForce 830A
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
NVIDIA GeForce 830A
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6550M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 830A and AMD Radeon HD 6550M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

651
Place in performance rating
745
Maxwell
Architecture
Terascale 2
GM108
Code name
Lexington
Desktop
Type
Laptop
22 July 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
26 November 2010 (11 years ago)
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Price now
$338
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Value for money
0.11
GM108
GPU code name
Capilano-PRO
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 830A and AMD Radeon HD 6550M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

256
Pipelines
400
1082 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
1150 MHz
Boost Clock
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Transistor count
2,154 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
33 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
26 Watt
18.40
Texture fill rate
12.00
588.8 gflops
Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
256
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
1150 MHz
Boost clock speed
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Number of transistors
2,154 million
33 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
26 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 830A and AMD Radeon HD 6550M.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
MXM-II
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Laptop size
medium sized

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 830A and AMD Radeon HD 6550M can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
DDR3
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
14.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 830A and AMD Radeon HD 6550M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 830A and AMD Radeon HD 6550M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 830A and AMD Radeon HD 6550M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 830A or AMD Radeon HD 6550M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 830A
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 830A
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 830A
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 830A
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 830A
AMD Radeon HD 6550M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 830A

2.32% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6550M

More pipelines (400 vs 256)

Less power consumption (26 Watt vs 33 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (28.8 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 830A or AMD Radeon HD 6550M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 830A .

NVIDIA GeForce 830A versus AMD Radeon HD 6550M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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