NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1320MHz vs 1282MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +264%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3840

32

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GA106

MX550

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

60W

-

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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