NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1670MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +58%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

TU117

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

MX550

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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