GeForce GTS 360M vs Radeon HD 6550A

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTS 360M and Radeon HD 6550A, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce GTS 360M stacks up against Radeon HD 6550A, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTS 360M is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: GeForce GTS 360M is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with GeForce GTS 360M here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTS 360M Radeon HD 6550A
Power consumption (TDP) 38 Watt 35 Watt
Interface MXM-II MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce GTS 360M has 8% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • GeForce GTS 360M is connected by MXM-II, and Radeon HD 6550A uses MXM-A (3.0) interface.
  • Radeon HD 6550A has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce GTS 360M.
  • GeForce GTS 360M is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 6550A - in Desktops.
  • GeForce GTS 360M is build with GT2xx architecture, and Radeon HD 6550A - with TeraScale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTS 360M is 886 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • GeForce GTS 360M and Radeon HD 6550A are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 1−2 1−2
medium / 1080p 0−1 0−1
GeForce GTS 360M and Radeon HD 6550A have the same average FPS in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTS 360M Radeon HD 6550A
Architecture GT2xx TeraScale 2
Code name N11E-GS1 Pinewood
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 7 February 2011
Pipelines 96 480
Core clock speed 1436 MHz 550 MHz
Transistor count 727 million 627 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 17.60 13.20
Floating-point performance 275.71 gflops 624.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 57.6 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.1 (10_1) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.1 5.0
OpenGL 2.1 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 96
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
SLI options +
HDMI +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Laptop size large
Gigaflops 413
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
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