NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 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 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1343MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +78%

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1343 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

16

1792

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

56

Tensor Cores

-

14

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

75.21 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

4.813 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

4.813 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

75.21 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

25W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU117

-

GPU Variant

MX550

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

276 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

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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