GeForce GT 550M and GeForce 7600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 550M vs GeForce 7600 GT
GeForce GT 550M
590
GeForce 7600 GT
224
GeForce GT 550M
GeForce 7600 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
G73
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
March 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
740 MHz
560 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
177 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
6.720
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-