NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 3 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1320MHz vs 1185MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 90W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
2.703 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q
+101%
5.46 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce MX550
2375
GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q
+191%
6924
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce MX550
438
GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q
+637%
3230
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2019
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
885 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1185 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
36
1024
Shading Units
2304
32
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
288
-
RT Cores
36
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
75.84 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
170.6 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.92 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.460 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
170.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
90W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
TU106
MX550
GPU Variant
N18E-G2-A1
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
