GeForce GT 555M 2 GB vs FirePro M6100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking599not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameEmeraldGF116
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date27 May 2014 (10 years ago)26 March 2012 (12 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 cores896144
Core clock speed1100 MHz675 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate61.6016.20
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPS0.3888 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs5624

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s28.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.5 (6.0)5.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.11.1
Vulkan1.2.170N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2014 26 March 2012
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

FirePro M6100 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M6100 and GeForce GT 555M 2 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M6100 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce GT 555M 2 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro M6100
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