AMD Radeon 740M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon 740M

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 550 MHz
2564.1x more texture fill rate: 40.00 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 40 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 808 vs 609
4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3204 vs 708

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	808 vs 609
PassMark - G3D Mark	3204 vs 708

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Around 88% higher pipelines: 480 vs 256

Pipelines	480 vs 256

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

808

609

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3204

708

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G2D Mark	808	609
PassMark - G3D Mark	3204	708
Geekbench - OpenCL	9954

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Phoenix	Pinewood
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	7 February 2011
Place in performance rating	217	218
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	256	480
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	627 million
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1600 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	DDR3