GeForce GT 550M vs GeForce GT 730 OEM

GeForce GT 550M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 550M
GeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 730 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 550M
    100%
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    116%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 550M

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 16% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 730 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730 OEM

The GeForce GT 730 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 730 OEM
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GT1-A1)vsGK107 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders96vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock740 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs16vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 730 OEM
TDP35 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs9 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    2.96 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    11.84 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 550M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 550M
    284.16 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 550M
    1340
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    1560

Points (higher is better)