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	405
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	32.86	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	TU117S
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	17 December 2021 (2 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 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
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 109.7 (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 294912 (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 11.78

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 4546

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

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

18−20

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	18−20
Battlefield 5	35−40
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	24−27
Cyberpunk 2077	18−20
Far Cry 5	27−30
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	75−80
Hitman 3	21−24
Horizon Zero Dawn	60−65
Metro Exodus	35−40
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	35−40
Watch Dogs: Legion	65−70

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	18−20
Battlefield 5	35−40
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	24−27
Cyberpunk 2077	18−20
Far Cry 5	27−30
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	75−80
Hitman 3	21−24
Horizon Zero Dawn	60−65
Metro Exodus	35−40
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	52
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	30−33
Watch Dogs: Legion	65−70

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	18−20
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	24−27
Cyberpunk 2077	18−20
Far Cry 5	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	75−80
Hitman 3	21−24
Horizon Zero Dawn	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	42
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	27
Watch Dogs: Legion	65−70

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

30−35

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	21−24
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	8−9
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	14−16
Forza Horizon 4	55−60
Hitman 3	14−16
Horizon Zero Dawn	24−27
Metro Exodus	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	70−75

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

18−20

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	10−12
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9
Hitman 3	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	55−60
Metro Exodus	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	6−7
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	14−16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

10−12

Closest competitors

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

Radeon R9 M395 108.06

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile 107.13

GeForce GTX 860M SLI 105.86

GeForce MX550 100

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 98.73

Arc Graphics 130V 98.64

Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS 97.62

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce MX550 is Radeon RX 560 Mobile, which is slower by 4% and lower by 11 positions in our ranking.