GeForce MX550 vs GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 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 3 months late
Boost Clock1320MHz
Lower TDP (25W vs 122W)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
+22%
2703
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2209
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2012
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
-
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
1024
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
128
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
23.01 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
122W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
GK104
MX550
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-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
