NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +1405%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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GeForce GT 550M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

-

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.960 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.84 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

284.2 GFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GF108

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

N12P-GT1-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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