GeForce MX550 vs GeForce GTX 680M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1320MHz vs 758MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)
GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
+32%
2703
GeForce GTX 680M
2038
Blender
GeForce MX550
+23%
234
GeForce GTX 680M
189
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
719 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
758 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
1024
Shading Units
1344
32
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
32
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.22 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.90 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.038 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
84.90 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
GK104
MX550
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX-A2
Turing
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
7.5
CUDA
3.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
