NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce MX550 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Around 89% higher texture fill rate: 79.68 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 480 vs 396
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7753 vs 4527
Around 27% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 43499 vs 34265

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	480 vs 396
PassMark - G3D Mark	7753 vs 4527
Geekbench - OpenCL	43499 vs 34265

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 45% higher core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 30 Watt

Launch date	2022 vs 17 Dec 2021
Core clock speed	1065 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 30 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce MX550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

480

396

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7753

4527

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

43499

34265

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce MX550
PassMark - G2D Mark	480	396
PassMark - G3D Mark	7753	4527
Geekbench - OpenCL	43499	34265
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	274
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce MX550
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Turing
Code name	GA107	TU117
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	2022
Place in performance rating	348	452
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz	1320 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1065 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	159.4 GFLOPS (1:32)	42.24 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.20 TFLOPS (2:1)	2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.100 TFLOPS	2.703 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	1024
Pixel fill rate	39.84 GPixel/s	21.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s	42.24 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count		4700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	229 mm, 9 inches
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
Form factor		IGP
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	96.00 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6