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 rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG73
Market segmentMobile workstation
Release date13 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 speed480 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors177 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate5.760of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs8of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs12of 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).

InterfacePCIe 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sof 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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Quadro FX 550M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 550M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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