GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1176 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce MX550
CORE STATE
TU117SB
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1320 MHz
TDP
25 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960M
MX550
Core Specs
Shading Units
640
1,024
+60.0%
Shaders
640
1,024
+60.0%
TMUs
40
32
-20.0%
ROPs
16
16
0.0%
SM Count
—
16
Clocks
Base Clock
1097 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
1176 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
2,048
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
96.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
21.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.505 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
47.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
42.24 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
75 W
25 W
TDP (W)
75
25
-66.7%
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell
Turing
GPU Name
GM107
TU117SB
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce MX
(5xx)
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
1,870 million
4,700 million
Die Size
148 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.6M / mm²
23.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.0
7.5
Shader Model
6.7 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
IGP
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
—
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
—