AMD Radeon HD 6750M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6750M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6750M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6750M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 140 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
8x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 200 MHz
117.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 937 vs 8
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 487 vs 152

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	937 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	487 vs 152

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

63.9x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6750M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

937

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

487

152

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	937	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	487	152
Geekbench - OpenCL	9432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.363
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	214.155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.331
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	30.439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3331
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3331

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rankine
Code name	Whistler	NV34 B1
Launch date	4 January 2011	17 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1087	1089
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$36.99
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		152 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0