NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6650M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon HD 6650M 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 6650M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
3x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 600 MHz
2x more texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Around 20% better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1554 vs 753
Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 377 vs 224
Around 80% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3351 vs 1866
Around 80% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3351 vs 1866

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 March 2011 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1554 vs 753
PassMark - G2D Mark	377 vs 224
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3351 vs 1866
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3351 vs 1866

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650M

2.5x more pipelines: 480 vs 192
Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	480 vs 192
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1026 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	5780 vs 5772
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3334 vs 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3334 vs 3322

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6650M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1554

753

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

377

224

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

5772

5780

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3351

1866

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3322

3334

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3351

1866

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3322

3334

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	AMD Radeon HD 6650M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1554	753
PassMark - G2D Mark	377	224
Geekbench - OpenCL	5772	5780
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	354.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	41.941
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3351	1866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3322	3334
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3351	1866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3322	3334
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	322

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	AMD Radeon HD 6650M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF116	Whistler
Launch date	15 March 2011	4 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$149
Place in performance rating	1046	1048
Price now	$287.59
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	7.49
Technical info
Core clock speed	1800 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops	576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	100 °C
Pipelines	192	480
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec	14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	116 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	8.25" (21 cm)
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.2	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	98.4 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1026 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI