NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550D

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• Around 72% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 600 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
• 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1096 vs 401
• Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 151 vs 131
• 4.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5771 vs 1316
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2085 vs 1382
• Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2736 vs 1975
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2085 vs 1382
• Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2736 vs 1975

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550D

• Around 4% higher pipelines: 400 vs 384
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3324 vs 3191
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3324 vs 3191

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550D

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1096 401
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	151 131
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5771 1316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 3324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 3324

Compare specifications (specs)