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.

 

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: 1553 vs 150
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 376 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 1553 vs 150
PassMark - G2D Mark 376 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
1553
150
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
376
155
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 1553 150
PassMark - G2D Mark 376 155
Geekbench - OpenCL 5767
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