AMD Radeon HD 6550D vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6550D and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6550D

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550D

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 150 nm
200.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 401 vs 2
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 131 vs 119

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 June 2011 vs 31 May 2005
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	401 vs 2
PassMark - G2D Mark	131 vs 119

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6550D
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

401

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

131

119

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6550D	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD
PassMark - G3D Mark	401	2
PassMark - G2D Mark	131	119
Geekbench - OpenCL	1316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1975
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3324
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3324

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6550D	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	Celsius
Code name	Llano	NV18 C1
Launch date	30 June 2011	31 May 2005
Place in performance rating	1237	1316
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	400
Transistor count	1000 Million	29 million
Texture fill rate		1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		10 Watt
API support
DirectX	11	8.0
OpenGL		1.3
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		400 MHz
Memory type		DDR
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DMS-59
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		AGP 8x
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None