NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 740 MHz vs 300 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 11.8 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 500 MHz
6.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 570 vs 86
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 116 vs 39
6.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1352 vs 211
6.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1352 vs 211

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	740 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.8 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	900 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	570 vs 86
PassMark - G2D Mark	116 vs 39
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1352 vs 211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1352 vs 211

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

570

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1352

211

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1352

211

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M	NVIDIA GeForce 6600
PassMark - G3D Mark	570	86
PassMark - G2D Mark	116	39
Geekbench - OpenCL	2363
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.651
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	213.211
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	10.521
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.978
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1056
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1790
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1352	211
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1056
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1790
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1352	211

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M	NVIDIA GeForce 6600
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF108	NV43 A2
Launch date	5 January 2011	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1504	1691
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	740 MHz	300 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	11.8 billion / sec	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
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