NVIDIA GeForce 7600 LE vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7600 LE and NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 LE

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 480 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 5.76 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Core clock speed	480 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.76 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 LE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G73	G73
Launch date	22 March 2006	13 March 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	480 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	5.76 GTexel / s
Transistor count	177 million	177 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3