NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1320MHz vs 1085MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +94%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce GTX 860M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 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

1020 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GM107

MX550

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

75W

-

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

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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