GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce MX550

CORE STATE TU117SB

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1320 MHz

TDP 25 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

N/A

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

34,198

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

32,220

passmark_directx_10

53

N/A

passmark_directx_11

83

N/A

passmark_directx_12

46

N/A

passmark_directx_9

164

N/A

passmark_g2d

792

N/A

passmark_g3d

11,095

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

MX550

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,024 -50.0%

Shaders

2,048

1,024 -50.0%

TMUs

128

32 -75.0%

ROPs

64

16 -75.0%

SM Count

—

16

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1065 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1320 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 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

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

96.00 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

21.12 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

42.24 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)

Power

TDP

165 W

25 W

TDP (W)

165

25 -84.8%

Suggested PSU

450 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Turing

GPU Name

GM204

TU117SB

Generation

GeForce 900

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

Dual-slot

IGP

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

—

Successor

GeForce 10

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