NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1320MHz vs 1185MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 65W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
2.703 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q
+68%
4.55 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce MX550
2375
GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q
+235%
7968
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce MX550
438
GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q
+739%
3676
Blender
GeForce MX550
234
GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q
+506%
1420
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2020
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 20 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
975 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1185 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
30
1024
Shading Units
1920
32
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
240
-
RT Cores
30
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.88 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.101 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.550 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
65W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
TU106
MX550
GPU Variant
N18E-G1
Turing
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
12 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
10.8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
445 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
7.5
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
