NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Oct 2020
Generation
GeForce MX
Tesla
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1065 MHz
1305 MHz
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
1740 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1812 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
64bit
384bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
695.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
84
Shading Units
1024
10752
TMUs
32
336
ROPs
16
112
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
6 MB
Tensor Cores
-
336
RT Cores
-
84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
194.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU117
GA102
GPU Variant
MX550
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Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.7 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
25W
300W
Outputs
No outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Suggested PSU
-
700 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