NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1320MHz vs 1038MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +1%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

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 SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GM204

MX550

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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