NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2019
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 20 Mobile
GeForce MX
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
735 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
1095 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
64bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
96.00GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
46
16
Shading Units
2944
1024
TMUs
184
32
ROPs
64
16
Tensor Cores
368
-
RT Cores
46
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
70.08 GPixel/s
21.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
201.5 GTexel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.89 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.447 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
201.5 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
TU104
TU117
GPU Variant
N18E-G3-A1
MX550
Architecture
Turing
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
12 nm
Transistors
13.6 billion
4.7 billion
Die Size
545 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
80W
25W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
7.5
Shader Model
6.6
6.6