NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2022
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce MX
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1552 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
64bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
96.00GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
20
16
Shading Units
2560
1024
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
21.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA106
TU117
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
MX550
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
12 billion
4.7 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
130W
25W
Suggested PSU
300 W
-
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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
8.6
7.5
Shader Model
6.6
6.6