NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1320MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
+622%
2.703 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280M
0.374 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2009
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 200M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-IV
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
-
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
950 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
60.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
16
1024
Shading Units
128
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.360 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.44 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
374.5 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
G92
MX550
GPU Variant
N10E-GTX
Turing
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
