NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 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

1317 points

1650 points

25% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

25 FPS

41 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

23 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

21 FPS

27 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

15 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

265.26 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

233.88 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24898 points

33865 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23619 points

32349 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1740 MHz

63% significantly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

1320 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

96 GB/s

Identical

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

28.56 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.12 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.83 TFLOPS

2.70 TFLOPS

47% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1024

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

242nd of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1630 vs GeForce MX550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX550 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1630 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1630 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX550 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1630 at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce MX550 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1630.