NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1320MHz vs 1290MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
+388%
13.21 TFLOPS
GeForce MX550
2.703 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
780 MHz
Base Clock
1065 MHz
1290 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
-
-
-
40
SM Count
16
5120
Shading Units
1024
160
TMUs
32
80
ROPs
16
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
206.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
13.21 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
13.21 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
206.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
TU117
GA104-770-A1
GPU Variant
MX550
Ampere
Architecture
Turing
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
12 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
392 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
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
