NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 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 RTX A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1320MHz vs 1207MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000 Max Q
+128%
6.18 TFLOPS
GeForce MX550
2.703 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Jan 2022
Ampere-MW
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
682 MHz
Base Clock
1065 MHz
1207 MHz
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
16
2560
Shading Units
1024
80
TMUs
32
48
ROPs
16
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.94 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
6.180 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
6.180 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
TU117
-
GPU Variant
MX550
Ampere
Architecture
Turing
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
12 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
200 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
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
