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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

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	221
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