GeForce GT 555M and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 555M
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
N12E-GE-B
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
April 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
753 MHz
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
Up to 753 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
Up to 144
-
Floating-point performance
388.8 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
144
6
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
Up to 16.2 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
DDR3\DDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
Up to 192 bit/128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 1569 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
Up to 50.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-