NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q 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)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1605MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +204%

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1605 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.04 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.4 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.218 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.218 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

AD107

MX550

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

Turing

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

200 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

35W

-

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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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