GeForce MX550 vs GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX550 Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 45W)
GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1455MHz vs 1320MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
2703
GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile
+258%
9684
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 50 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
952 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1455 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
26
1024
Shading Units
3328
32
TMUs
104
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
104
-
RT Cores
26
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
69.84 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.3 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.684 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.684 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
151.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
45W
-
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
GB206
MX550
GPU Variant
GB206
Turing
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
7.5
CUDA
12.0
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
