NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M +47%

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

GeForce 9800S

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

8

96

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G94

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

9800S

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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