NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1320MHz vs 1176MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960M
1.505 TFLOPS
GeForce MX550
+79%
2.703 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 960M
1225
GeForce MX550
+93%
2375
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 960M
+28%
565
GeForce MX550
438
Blender
GeForce GTX 960M
185
GeForce MX550
+26%
234
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1097 MHz
Base Clock
1065 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
640
Shading Units
1024
40
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
47.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
1.505 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
47.04 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
TU117
N16P-GX-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
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
