GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GT 540M
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
GeForce GT 540M
493
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GT 540M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GF116
N12P-GS
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2011
January 2011
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
192
96
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
96
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
35 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
Optimus
-
+