NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1492MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB +182%

7.639 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1237 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1492 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

20

1024

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.74 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

119.4 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.639 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.639 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

119.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GA107

MX550

GPU Variant

GN20-P0-R-K2

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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