GeForce GT 550M and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 550M vs GeForce GTX 1660
GeForce GT 550M
590
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
GeForce GT 550M
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
Turing TU116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
March 2019
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
740 MHz
1530 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
157.1
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
7.5
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
+
-