NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 21% (1320MHz vs 1095MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +138%

6.447 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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

735 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1095 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

46

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2944

32

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.08 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.5 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.89 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.447 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

TU104

MX550

GPU Variant

N18E-G3-A1

Turing

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

3

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

5

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon E8860

6

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

8

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

9

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 720M

10

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Related News

1

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

2

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

3

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

4

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

5

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

6

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

7

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

8

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

9

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales

10

Do You Really Know What a "Rendering Engine" Is? Read This Article to Understand All About It