NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

1650 points

13% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

31 FPS

41 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

23 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

27 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

233.88 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

36084 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

33865 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

32349 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1320 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

25 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

110% significantly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS

2.70 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1024

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce MX550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX550 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce MX550 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX550 over the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.