GeForce GTX 1650 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated269
Place by popularitynot in top-1003
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data38.86
Power efficiencyno data18.68
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRV620TU117
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 August 2008 (16 years ago)23 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40896
Core clock speed594 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors181 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate2.37693.24
Floating-point processing power0.04752 TFLOPS2.984 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs456

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed396 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.336 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2008 23 April 2019
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 75 Watt

ATI HD 3550 has 150% lower power consumption.

GTX 1650, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 358.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3550 and GeForce GTX 1650. We've got no test results to judge.


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