NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GF108 GF117
GPU variant N12P-GT1-A1 N14M-GE
Architecture Fermi Fermi 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 585 million 585 million
Die size 116 mm² 116 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 5th, 2011 Jul 1st, 2014
Generation GeForce 500M GeForce 700A
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 400M GeForce 600A
Successor GeForce 600M GeForce 800A

Clocks

GPU clock 740 MHz 775 MHz
Shader clock 1480 MHz 1550 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 1001 MHz 2 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1024 MB
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 28.80 GB/s 16.02 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 96 96
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 4 8
SM count 2 2
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 256 KB 128 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 2.960 GPixel/s 3.100 GPixel/s
Texture rate 11.84 GTexel/s 12.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 284.2 GFLOPS 297.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 23.68 GFLOPS (1:12) 24.80 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP 35 W 33 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Slot width MXM Module

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 2.1 2.1
Shader model 5.1 5.1

Other Features

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