GeForce MX550 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1320MHz vs 1245MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)
GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
2703
GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q
+466%
15300
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
780 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1245 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
48
1024
Shading Units
6144
32
TMUs
192
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.5 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
239.0 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
15.30 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.30 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
239.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
GA104
MX550
GPU Variant
GA104-775-A1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
