NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1545MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (25W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +602%

18.98 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

1024

192

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

148.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

296.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

18.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

18.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

296.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU117

GA104-775-A1

GPU Variant

MX550

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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