NVIDIA GeForce 705M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550D

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 6550D videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 705M

AMD Radeon HD 6550D

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 705M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 600 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 456 vs 401
3.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 455 vs 131

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 September 2013 vs 30 June 2011
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	456 vs 401
PassMark - G2D Mark	455 vs 131

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550D

8.3x more pipelines: 400 vs 48
Around 75% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1975 vs 1131
2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3324 vs 1629
Around 75% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1975 vs 1131
2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3324 vs 1629

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	400 vs 48
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1975 vs 1131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3324 vs 1629
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1975 vs 1131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3324 vs 1629

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 705M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550D

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

456

401

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

455

131

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1131

1975

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1629

3324

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1131

1975

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1629

3324

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 705M	AMD Radeon HD 6550D
PassMark - G3D Mark	456	401
PassMark - G2D Mark	455	131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.569
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	115.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.373
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	7.904
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	11.055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1131	1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1629	3324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1131	1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1629	3324
Geekbench - OpenCL		1328
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1382

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 705M	AMD Radeon HD 6550D
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Terascale 2
Code name	GF117	Llano
Launch date	27 September 2013	30 June 2011
Place in performance rating	1245	1246
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	48	400
Texture fill rate	5.904 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	1000 Million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 2560x1600
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 2560x1600
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12 API	11
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0	1
Standard memory configuration	DDR3
Technologies
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus