NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 38W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M +7%

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

12

96

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GT215

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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