NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1320MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)
832 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
+354%
2.703 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 560M
0.595 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
-
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
625 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
60.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
4
1024
Shading Units
192
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.200 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.80 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
595.2 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
49.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
GF116
MX550
GPU Variant
N12E-GS-A1
Turing
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
2.1
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
