NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 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

1799 points

9% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

41 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

27 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

233.88 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21004 points

36084 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

33865 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

32349 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

1065 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1320 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

499% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

25 W

900% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

105% significantly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

310% significantly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

53% significantly better floating point performance

2.70 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

125% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586

231st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce MX550 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 780 beats the GeForce MX550 in gaming performance.

The GeForce MX550 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 MX550 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX550 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 is better than the GeForce MX550.