NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i 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 7050 + nForce 610i

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 48% higher core clock speed: 740 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
21.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 570 vs 26
Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 116 vs 78

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 13 January 2008
Core clock speed	740 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	570 vs 26
PassMark - G2D Mark	116 vs 78

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

570

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M	NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i
PassMark - G3D Mark	570	26
PassMark - G2D Mark	116	78
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1056
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1790
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1352

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M	NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF108	C73
Launch date	5 January 2011	13 January 2008
Place in performance rating	1504	1506
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	740 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	11.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
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