GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs Arc A550M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking225not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10079
Power efficiency28.01no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512GA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2022 (2 years ago)17 December 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20482048
Core clock speed900 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed2050 MHz1155 MHz
Number of transistors21,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate262.473.92
Floating-point processing power8.397 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs12864
Tensor Cores25664
Ray Tracing Cores1632

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 30 Watt

Arc A550M has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 2050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc A550M and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Arc A550M
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