NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1480MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +40%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GP106

MX550

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

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

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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