NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
1276.1x more texture fill rate: 42.24 GTexel/s vs 33.1 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm

Launch date	2022 vs 12 March 2018
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s vs 33.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 25 Watt
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
PassMark - G2D Mark	396
PassMark - G3D Mark	4527
Geekbench - OpenCL	34265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	102.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1017.021
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	87.46
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	587.99
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		629

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Pascal
Code name	TU117	GP108
Launch date	2022	12 March 2018
Place in performance rating	452	1476
Launch price (MSRP)		$79
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz	1379 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	1152 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	42.24 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.703 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	384
Pixel fill rate	21.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s	33.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	1,800 million
Floating-point performance		1,059 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		145 mm
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	16.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	2100 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR4