NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 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

2086 points

26% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

41 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

118% significantly higher Blender score

233.88 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36084 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33865 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32349 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1320 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

25 W

259% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

317% significantly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

317% significantly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

108% significantly better floating point performance

2.70 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

203rd of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs GeForce MX550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce MX550 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce MX550 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q at 90 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q over the GeForce MX550.