NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 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 9 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1350MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

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

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 Max Q +513%

16.59 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

RTX A5000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce MX

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

720 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

48

1024

Shading Units

6144

32

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

129.6 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.2 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.59 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GA104

MX550

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

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