AMD Radeon HD 6550D vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6550D and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550D

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 9% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 550 MHz
• 4.2x more pipelines: 400 vs 96
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 401 vs 330
• Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 131 vs 121
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3324 vs 3128
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3324 vs 3128

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6550D
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	401 330
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	131 121
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3324 3128
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3324 3128

Compare specifications (specs)