NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE 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 7500 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 740 MHz vs 475 MHz
3.1x more texture fill rate: 11.8 billion / sec vs 3.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 810 MHz
6.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 573 vs 90
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed	740 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.8 billion / sec vs 3.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	900 MHz vs 810 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	573 vs 90
PassMark - G2D Mark	119 vs 69

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

573

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

119

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M	NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	573	90
PassMark - G2D Mark	119	69
Geekbench - OpenCL	2351
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 7500 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF108	G72
Launch date	5 January 2011	22 March 2006
Place in performance rating	1508	1511
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	740 MHz	475 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	3.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	112 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	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	6.48 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	810 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
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