GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile vs Quadro FX 550M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameG73GB206
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date13 March 2006 (18 years ago)2025

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 coresno data3584
Core clock speed480 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors177 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology90 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate5.760282.2
Floating-point processing powerno data18.06 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs12112
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s507.2 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.8
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 115 Watt

FX 550M has 228.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 5060 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 550M and GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 550M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile
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