NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1734MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +228%

8.878 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

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

1556 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1734 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.0 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.4 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.7 GFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.878 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GP104

MX550

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

150W

-

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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