NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1320MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +45%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 980MX +34%

314

GeForce MX550

234

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

1664

Shading Units

1024

104

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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