ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G mGPU AMD

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3550 and NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G mGPU AMD videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G mGPU AMD

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3550

Around 32% higher core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm

Core clock speed	594 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G mGPU AMD

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 30 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 30 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3550	NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G mGPU AMD
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RV620	MCP77MH
Launch date	4 August 2008	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	594 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2.376 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	792 MHz
Memory type	DDR2