NVIDIA started GeForce MX550 sales 17 December 2021. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 25 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce MX550: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	411
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	32.45	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	TU117S
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	17 December 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce MX550's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce MX550's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1024	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	4,700 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	42.24	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	2.703 TFLOPS	of 104.8 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	16	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	32	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce MX550 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce MX550: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce MX550. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce MX550. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce MX550, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	7.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce MX550. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce MX550 11.77

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce MX550 4525

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

GeForce MX550 10005

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GeForce MX550 36560

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GeForce MX550 6126

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

GeForce MX550 40364

3DMark Time Spy Graphics

GeForce MX550 2470

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce MX550 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	46
4K	28

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	20−22
Cyberpunk 2077	21−24
Elden Ring	36

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	35−40
Counter-Strike 2	20−22
Cyberpunk 2077	12
Forza Horizon 4	60
Metro Exodus	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−33
Valorant	45−50

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	35−40
Counter-Strike 2	20−22
Cyberpunk 2077	9
Dota 2	74
Elden Ring	35−40
Far Cry 5	70
Fortnite	65−70
Forza Horizon 4	52
Grand Theft Auto V	55
Metro Exodus	30−35
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	85−90
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−33
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	35−40
Valorant	45−50
World of Tanks	160−170

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	35−40
Counter-Strike 2	20−22
Cyberpunk 2077	4
Dota 2	104
Far Cry 5	45−50
Forza Horizon 4	42
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	85−90
Valorant	45−50

1440p
High Preset

Dota 2	16−18
Elden Ring	16−18
Grand Theft Auto V	16−18
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	65−70
Red Dead Redemption 2	10−11
World of Tanks	80−85

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	21−24
Counter-Strike 2	30−35
Cyberpunk 2077	9−10
Far Cry 5	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	27−30
Metro Exodus	24−27
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18
Valorant	27−30

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	6−7
Dota 2	21−24
Elden Ring	7−8
Grand Theft Auto V	21−24
Metro Exodus	7−8
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	21−24

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	10−12
Counter-Strike 2	6−7
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Dota 2	21−24
Far Cry 5	14−16
Fortnite	12−14
Forza Horizon 4	16−18
Valorant	12−14

Closest competitors

GeForce MX550's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile 105.78

GeForce GTX 860M SLI 104.76

Arc Graphics 130V 100.42

GeForce MX550 100

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 98.64

Radeon RX 560 Mobile 95.33

Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS 92.18

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce MX550 is Radeon RX 560 Mobile, which is slower by 5% and lower by 11 positions in our ranking.