The Quadro M5500 Mobile was a professional mobile graphics chip by NVIDIA, launched on April 8th, 2016. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the GM204 graphics processor, the chip supports DirectX 12. The GM204 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 398 mm² and 5,200 million transistors. It features 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. NVIDIA has paired 8 GB GDDR5 memory with the Quadro M5500 Mobile, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1140 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1165 MHz, memory is running at 1753 MHz (7 Gbps effective). Being a mxm module card, the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 150 W maximum. This device has no display connectivity, as it is not designed to have monitors connected to it. Rather it is intended for use in laptop/notebooks and will use the output of the host mobile device.