Quadro T1000 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated318
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.63
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameM12TU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 June 2004 (20 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores6768
Core clock speed250 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speed210 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors76 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate1.00069.84
Floating-point processing powerno data2.235 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs448

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 sizemedium sizedmedium sized
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount64 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed243 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth3.888 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2004 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 12 nm

T1000 Mobile has an age advantage of 14 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 983.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon 9550 and Quadro T1000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon 9550 is a notebook graphics card while Quadro T1000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
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