NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 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 7900 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 740 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 31% higher texture fill rate: 11.8 billion / sec vs 9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 49 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 570 vs 254
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 116 vs 68

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed	740 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.8 billion / sec vs 9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 49 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	570 vs 254
PassMark - G2D Mark	116 vs 68

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Around 47% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 900 MHz

Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 900 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

570

254

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	570	254
PassMark - G2D Mark	116	68
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 7900 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF108	G71
Launch date	5 January 2011	1 May 2006
Place in performance rating	1504	1507
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$259
Technical info
Core clock speed	740 MHz	450 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	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
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