NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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 FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 740 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 140 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 200 MHz
71.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 570 vs 8

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	740 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	900 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	570 vs 8

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

78x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 11.8 billion / sec
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 152 vs 116

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 11.8 billion / sec
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	152 vs 116

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

570

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

152

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	570	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	116	152
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 FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rankine
Code name	GF108	NV34 B1
Launch date	5 January 2011	17 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1504	1132
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$36.99
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	740 MHz	230 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	11.8 billion / sec	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	45 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	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
Length		152 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0a
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
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