ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5550 and NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M 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.

ATI Radeon HD 5550

NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
20.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 377 vs 18

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 February 2010 vs 16 November 2007
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	377 vs 18

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 194 vs 185

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	194 vs 185

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

185

194

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5550	NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M
PassMark - G3D Mark	377	18
PassMark - G2D Mark	185	194

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5550	NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Redwood	MCP67M
Launch date	9 February 2010	16 November 2007
Place in performance rating	890	901
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5