GeForce GT 550M vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce GT 550M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 550M
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 550M
    120%
  • GeForce GT 710
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 550M

Around 20% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 550M

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 550M

The GeForce GT 550M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 710
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GT1-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock740 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 710
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 710
TDP35 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    2.96 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    11.84 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 550M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 550M
    284.16 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 550M
    1340
  • GeForce GT 710
    1110

Points (higher is better)