NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 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

1419 points

1650 points

16% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

41 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

23 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

27 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

233.88 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

36084 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

33865 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

32349 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1320 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25 W

380% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

78% significantly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

78% significantly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

2.70 TFLOPS

12% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

Identical

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly 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

239th of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce MX550 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX550 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 960 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. Despite this, the GeForce MX550 has a slightly 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 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX550 over the GeForce GTX 960.