AMD Radeon HD 7690M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7690M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 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 7690M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 360 MHz
6x more texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 30 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
14.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 909 vs 64
Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 454 vs 325

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 December 2011 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 360 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 30 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	909 vs 64
PassMark - G2D Mark	454 vs 325

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7690M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

909

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

454

325

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7690M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
PassMark - G3D Mark	909	64
PassMark - G2D Mark	454	325
Geekbench - OpenCL	1242

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7690M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Thames	NV43 A2
Launch date	25 December 2011	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	499	501
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz
Core clock speed	725 MHz	360 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	2.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		198 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5 / DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0