NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 6550A 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

  • Around 47% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 550 MHz
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 550 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

  • Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 12.96 GTexel / s
  • 5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 311.04 gflops
  • Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1334 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s vs 12.96 GTexel / s
Pipelines 480 vs 96
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops vs 311.04 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark 708
PassMark - G2D Mark 609

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale 2
Code name GF108 Pinewood
Launch date 9 February 2011 7 February 2011
Place in performance rating not rated 218
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 311.04 gflops 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 96 480
Texture fill rate 12.96 GTexel / s 15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 21.34 GB / s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1334 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3

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