NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1320MHz vs 758MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +32%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 600M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

TU117

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

MX550

Kepler

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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