NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• Around 32% higher core clock speed: 740 MHz vs 561 MHz
• Around 33% higher pipelines: 96 vs 72
• Around 75% better floating-point performance: 284.16 gflops vs 162 gflops
• Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 45 Watt
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 568 vs 467
• Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 116 vs 70
• Around 93% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1790 vs 926
• Around 93% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1790 vs 926

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

• Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 13.46 GTexel / s vs 11.8 billion / sec
• 2.4x more memory clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 900 MHz
• 3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7043 vs 2351
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1450 vs 1352
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1450 vs 1352

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	568 467
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	116 70
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	2351 7043
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1790 926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1352 1450
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1790 926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1352 1450

Compare specifications (specs)