GeForce MX550 vs FirePro W4170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1320MHz vs 900MHz)
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
+291%
2703
FirePro W4170M
691
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Apr 2015
GeForce MX
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
825 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
16
SM Count
-
1024
Shading Units
384
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
8
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
21.60 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
691.2 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
43.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
Opal
MX550
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
