NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 38W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +923%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

TU117

N10E-GS

GPU Variant

MX550

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

38W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.2

CUDA

7.5

4.1

Shader Model

6.6

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