NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

NVIDIA GeForce 840A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840A 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 Clock has increased by 17% (1320MHz vs 1124MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +213%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce 840A

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce 840A

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

1024

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GM108

MX550

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

200 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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