NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (2000MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile +1491%

43.01 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 50 Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

16

10752

Shading Units

1024

336

TMUs

32

128

ROPs

16

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

256.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

672.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

43.01 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

43.01 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

25W

550 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

TU117

-

GPU Variant

MX550

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

12 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.7 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

7.5

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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