NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M +110%

0.598 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

11

96

Shading Units

352

16

TMUs

44

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

-

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GF100

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

Fermi

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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