NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 550M sales 13 March 2006. This is a Curie architecture notebook card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 550M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | G73 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 13 March 2006 (19 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro FX 550M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 550M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 480 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 177 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 5.760 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 12 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 550M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 550M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 500 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 16 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 550M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Quadro FX 550M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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