GeForce MX550 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX550 Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1320MHz vs 990MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh Advantages
Released 6 months late
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
2703
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh
+50%
4055
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jul 2022
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
622 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
990 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
96bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
16
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)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.68 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
63.36 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.055 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.055 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
63.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
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
Unknown
200 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
