GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1038 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
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
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 970M
MX550
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,024
-20.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,024
-20.0%
TMUs
80
32
-60.0%
ROPs
48
16
-66.7%
SM Count
—
16
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
2,048
-66.7%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
96.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
21.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
42.24 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
—
25 W
TDP (W)
—
25
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Turing
GPU Name
GM204
TU117SB
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce MX
(5xx)
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
4,700 million
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
23.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
7.5
Shader Model
6.8
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
—