NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce MX
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1065 MHz
1552 MHz
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
64bit
128bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
20
Shading Units
1024
2560
TMUs
32
80
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Tensor Cores
—
80
RT Cores
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
56.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
9.098 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU117
GA106
GPU Variant
MX550
GA106-150-KA-A1
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.7 billion
12 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
25W
130W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.