NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q 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 28% (1320MHz vs 1035MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q +96%

5.299 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q

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

1065 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1035 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.12 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.80 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.299 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.299 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GA107

MX550

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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

6.7

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