NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

306 points

1650 points

439% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

8 FPS

41 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

23 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

27 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

15 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.68 points

233.88 points

298% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6582 points

36084 points

448% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6410 points

33865 points

428% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5702 points

32349 points

467% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1004 MHz

1065 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1242 MHz

1320 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

16.02 GB/s

96 GB/s

499% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

23 W

8% slightly lower TDP

25 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

9.94 Gigapixels/s

21.12 Gigapixels/s

112% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.81 Gigatexels/s

42.24 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

1024

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

382nd of 596

233rd of 596

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce 940MX vs GeForce MX550 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX550 GPU is faster than the GeForce 940MX in gaming.

The GeForce MX550 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce MX550 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce 940MX has a slightly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the GeForce MX550 at 25 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce MX550 is better than the GeForce 940MX.