NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel Arc A730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1320MHz vs 1100MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)
Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
2.703 TFLOPS
Arc A730M
+150%
6.758 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce MX550
2375
Arc A730M
+215%
7485
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce MX550
438
Arc A730M
+827%
4064
Blender
GeForce MX550
234
Arc A730M
+496%
1396
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce MX
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
1024
Shading Units
3072
32
TMUs
192
16
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
24
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
12 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
211.2 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
13.52 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.758 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
DG2-512
MX550
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Turing
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
6 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
406 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
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
