GeForce GT 550M vs GeForce GT 720

GeForce GT 550M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 550M
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 550M
    109%
  • GeForce GT 720
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 550M

Around 9% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 720

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 720
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GT1-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock740 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 720
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 720
TDP35 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    2.96 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    11.84 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 550M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 550M
    284.16 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 550M
    1340
  • GeForce GT 720
    1220

Points (higher is better)