NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 122W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +22%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

2.209 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

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GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

-

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GK104

MX550

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-A2

Turing

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

122W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

7.5

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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