NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1320MHz vs 1057MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile +60%

4.329 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1065MHz

Base Clock

712MHz

1320MHz

Boost Clock

1057MHz

1500MHz

Memory Clock

1500MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00 GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2MB

L2 Cache

2MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.82 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.65 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.329 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.329 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.65 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GA107

MX550

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4,700 million

Transistors

Unknown

200mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

25W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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