NVIDIA T550 Mobile vs NVIDIA RTX A500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA T550 Mobile and NVIDIA RTX A500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA T550 Mobile

NVIDIA RTX A500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA T550 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 60 Watt

Launch date	May 2022 vs 10 Nov 2021
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 60 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1440 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1770 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 113.3 GTexel/s vs 106.6 GTexel/s
2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1440 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate	113.3 GTexel/s vs 106.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 12 nm
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA T550 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A500

Name	NVIDIA T550 Mobile	NVIDIA RTX A500
PassMark - G2D Mark	405
PassMark - G3D Mark	4810
Geekbench - OpenCL	35473

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA T550 Mobile	NVIDIA RTX A500
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Ampere
Code name	TU117	GA107
Launch date	May 2022	10 Nov 2021
Place in performance rating	347	not rated
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	1770 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	1440 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	106.6 GFLOPS (1:32)	113.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.820 TFLOPS (2:1)	7.250 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.410 TFLOPS	7.250 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2048
Pixel fill rate	53.28 GPixel/s	56.64 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	106.6 GTexel/s	113.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Single-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Recommended system power (PSU)		250 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	112.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6