NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1320MHz vs 1095MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +138%

6.447 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +683%

1834

GeForce MX550

234

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

16

2944

Shading Units

1024

184

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

70.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

201.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

12.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

6.447 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

201.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

TU117

N18E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

MX550

Turing

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

12 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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

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