NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G70 GF108
GPU variant GF-7800-U-A2 N12P-GT1-A1
Architecture Curie Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 110 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 302 million 585 million
Die size 333 mm² 116 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 14th, 2005
Generation GeForce 7 PCIe
Production End-of-life
Launch price 649 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 206 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 6 PCIe
Successor GeForce 8

Clocks

GPU clock 500 MHz 740 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1480 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 51.20 GB/s 28.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 24
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 24 16
ROPs 16 4
Shading units 96
SM count 2
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 256 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 8.000 GPixel/s 2.960 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.000 GVertices/s
Texture rate 12.00 GTexel/s 11.84 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 284.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 23.68 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot
Length 228 mm 9 inches
TDP 108 W 35 W
Suggested PSU 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Board number P348
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 2.1 4.6
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 5th, 2011
Generation GeForce 500M
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 400M
Successor GeForce 600M

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