GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce MX550 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GeForce MX550
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
GM206
GN18-S5
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2015
December 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1201 MHz
1320 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
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Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
4,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
-
15-25 Watt
Texture fill rate
76.86
42.24
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7012 MHz
12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
5.2
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2
Optimus
-
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