In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 2GB are significantly better than the Nvidia Quadro 1000M.

The Quadro 1000M was released less than a year after the GT 550M, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

The GeForce GT 550M 2GB and the Quadro 1000M have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The memory bandwidth of the GeForce GT 550M 2GB and the Quadro 1000M are the same, which means the GT 550M and the Quadro 1000M have equal limitations when it comes to graphical data transfer.

Both the GeForce GT 550M 2GB and the Quadro 1000M have 96 Shader Processing Units. While the two GPUs have the same number of SPUs, the actual performance delivered by the GT 550M is 142 and by the Quadro 1000M is 67. Knowing that the shader performance of the GT 550M is superior, it is not necessary to examine the GPUs' respective Texture and Pixel Fill Rates.

The GeForce GT 550M 2GB requires 35 Watts to run and the Quadro 1000M requires 45 Watts. The Quadro 1000M requires 10 Watts more than the GT 550M to run. The difference is not significant enough for the Quadro 1000M to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the GT 550M.