GeForce GT 550M and GeForce GTS 150M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 550M vs GeForce GTS 150M
GeForce GT 550M
590
GeForce GTS 150M
519
GeForce GT 550M
GeForce GTS 150M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
N10E-GE1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
March 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
2-way
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
740 MHz
400 MHz
CUDA cores
96
64
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
128 gflops
Gigaflops
-
192
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
64
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
13 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
Up to 800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
51 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-
Power management
-
8.0