AMD Radeon HD 7550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7550M and NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL 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.

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
3.8x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 465 vs 89
Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 288

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2012 vs 14 November 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	465 vs 89
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 288

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

465

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

288

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7550M	NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL
PassMark - G3D Mark	465	89
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	288
Geekbench - OpenCL	5371

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7550M	NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Thames	NV43 A2
Launch date	7 January 2012	14 November 2004
Place in performance rating	568	571
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	550 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	400
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5 / DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0