NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel Arc A730M

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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

GeForce MX550

VS

Arc A730M

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

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3072

32

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

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)

-

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

Board Design

25W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

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