NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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

2077 points

25% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

41 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

28 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

233.88 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

36084 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

33865 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

32349 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25 W

380% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 597

235th of 597

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce MX550 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 beats the GeForce MX550 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 over the GeForce MX550.