NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel Arc A380M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 6GB VRAM Arc A380M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 35W)

Intel Arc A380M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (2000MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (186.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc A380M +51%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Arc A380M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce MX

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.1)

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1550 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

186.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

128

-

RT Cores

8

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

DG2-128

MX550

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Turing

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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