T550 Mobile vs VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated395
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataTuring (2018−2022)
GPU code nameno dataTU117
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 January 2001 (23 years ago)27 May 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data1024
Core clock speedno data1065 MHz
Boost clock speed121 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rateno data106.6
Floating-point performanceno data3.41 gflops

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 sizeno datamedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 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 typeno dataGDDR5, GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data12000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2001 27 May 2022

T550 Mobile has an age advantage of 21 year.

We couldn't decide between VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8 and T550 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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