NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M 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 37% (1320MHz vs 967MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +4%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1344

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GK104

MX550

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Turing

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

7.5

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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