GeForce GT 550M vs GeForce GT 710 OEM

GeForce GT 550M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 550M
GeForce GT 710 OEM
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 710 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 550M
    120%
  • GeForce GT 710 OEM
    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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GT1-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock740 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 710 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 710 OEM
TDP35 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs9 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    2.96 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710 OEM
    3.29 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    11.84 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710 OEM
    13.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 550M
    284.16 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710 OEM
    316.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 550M
    1340
  • GeForce GT 710 OEM
    1110

Points (higher is better)