NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550D

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 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. 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 GT 740

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 66% higher core clock speed: 993 MHz vs 600 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
• 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1469 vs 401
• 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 349 vs 131
• 3.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4271 vs 1316
• Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1790 vs 1382
• Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1790 vs 1382

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550D

• Around 4% higher pipelines: 400 vs 384
• Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1975 vs 1427
• Around 54% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3324 vs 2153
• Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1975 vs 1427
• Around 54% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3324 vs 2153

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550D

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1469 401
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	349 131
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	4271 1316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1790 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1427 1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2153 3324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1790 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1427 1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2153 3324

Compare specifications (specs)