NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1320MHz vs 1140MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +72%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Sep 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

1064 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU117

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

MX550

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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