NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 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

ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 725 MHz
5x more texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 5.8 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 192 vs 120
4x better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 174 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1026 MHz vs 1000 MHz
10.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1554 vs 150
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 375 vs 155

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 March 2011 vs 23 January 2008
Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec vs 5.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	192 vs 120
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops vs 174 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1026 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1554 vs 150
PassMark - G2D Mark	375 vs 155

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Around 78% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 116 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 116 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1554

150

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

375

155

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	1554	150
PassMark - G2D Mark	375	155
Geekbench - OpenCL	5772
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3322
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	322

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GF116	RV635
Launch date	15 March 2011	23 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$149
Place in performance rating	1061	1063
Price now	$287.59
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	7.49
Technical info
Core clock speed	1800 MHz	725 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops	174 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	100 °C
Pipelines	192	120
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec	5.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	116 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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	AGP 8x
Length	8.25" (21 cm)
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.2	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	98.4 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1026 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI