NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Nov 2015
Generation
GeForce MX
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1065 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
1201 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64bit
128bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
—
Shading Units
1024
1024
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU117
GM206
GPU Variant
MX550
GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.7 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
25W
Unknown
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Suggested PSU
—
200 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.