NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

• Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 1038 MHz
• Around 17% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1127 MHz
• 814.8x more texture fill rate: 42.24 GTexel/s vs 51.84 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
• 4x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 100 Watt
• Around 62% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34979 vs 21586
• Around 11% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 102.448 vs 92.634
• 4.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 87.46 vs 18.431
• Around 91% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 587.99 vs 308.42

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

• Around 50% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1024
• 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
• Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 499 vs 404
• Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7352 vs 4610
• Around 13% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1146.534 vs 1017.021
• Around 36% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 6.776 vs 4.996

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	404 499
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4610 7352
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	34979 21586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	102.448 92.634
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1017.021 1146.534
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.996 6.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	87.46 18.431
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	587.99 308.42

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