NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1320MHz vs 1140MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +72%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GM204

MX550

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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