Caicos vs GeForce GT 550M

Place in the ranking	983	1098
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.12	no data
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	GF108	Caicos
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	5 January 2011 (13 years ago)	no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	160
CUDA cores	96	no data
Core clock speed	475 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	585 million	370 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	7.600	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.1824 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	16	8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	no data
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 API	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	15 +50%	10−12 −50%
Full HD	22 +57.1%	14−16 −57.1%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5
+100%

2−3

−100%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Far Cry 5	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Hitman 3	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 +50%	10−11 −50%
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 +57.1%	21−24 −57.1%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Far Cry 5	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Hitman 3	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 +50%	10−11 −50%
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−12 +57.1%	7−8 −57.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 +57.1%	21−24 −57.1%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Far Cry 5	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Hitman 3	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 +50%	10−11 −50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−12 +57.1%	7−8 −57.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 +57.1%	21−24 −57.1%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4
+50%

2−3

−50%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Hitman 3	7−8 +75%	4−5 −75%
Horizon Zero Dawn	5−6 +66.7%	3−4 −66.7%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	7−8 +75%	4−5 −75%