GeForce GT 550M and Quadro P500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 550M vs Quadro P500
GeForce GT 550M
590
Quadro P500
1673
GeForce GT 550M
Quadro P500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
GP108
Market segment
Laptop
Mobile workstation
Release date
January 2011
November 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1519 MHz
Core clock speed
740 MHz
1455 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
679.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
256
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
21.25
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
32.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
3x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
12 API
12.1
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.0.1
Optimus
+
-