Radeon HD 6550A vs Tesla C2050

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Radeon HD 6550A and Tesla C2050. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Radeon HD 6550A and Tesla C2050. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.
Radeon HD 6550A
Tesla C2050

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 6550A Tesla C2050
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 238 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI
 
  • Tesla C2050 has 580% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • Radeon HD 6550A is connected by MXM-A (3.0), and Tesla C2050 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Tesla C2050 has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 6550A is build with TeraScale 2 architecture, and Tesla C2050 - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Tesla C2050 is 24 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • Radeon HD 6550A and Tesla C2050 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla C2050 is 1400 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6550A.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 18−20
ultra / 1080p 10−11
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 1−2 35−40
medium / 1080p 0−1 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Tesla C2050 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3600% more, than Radeon HD 6550A.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 6550A Tesla C2050
Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Code name Pinewood GF100
Type Desktop Workstation
Release date 7 February 2011 25 July 2011
Pipelines 480 448
Core clock speed 550 MHz 574 MHz
Transistor count 627 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 13.20 32.14
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops 1,030.4 gflops
Length 248 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 3000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s 144.0 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
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