GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs GeForce MX550
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1320MHz
Lower TDP (25W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2209
GeForce MX550
+22%
2703
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1065 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
16
1536
Shading Units
1024
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
25W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
TU117
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
MX550
Kepler
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
