GeForce MX550 vs FirePro M5950
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 11 years late
Boost Clock1320MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
544 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 35W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
+288%
2703
FirePro M5950
696
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce MX
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
-
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
16
SM Count
-
1024
Shading Units
480
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
8
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.800 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.40 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
696.0 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
35W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
Whistler
MX550
GPU Variant
Whistler XT GL
Turing
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
0.716 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.0
