NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +134%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

TU117

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

MX550

Maxwell

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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