NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2207 points

33% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

41 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

29 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

441.58 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

233.88 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40474 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36084 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39947 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33865 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38942 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32349 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1035 MHz

1065 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

1320 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

160 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

25 W

40% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.4 Gigapixels/s

81% significantly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

76.8 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.46 TFLOPS

2.70 TFLOPS

9% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

Identical

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

195th of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

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 1650 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce MX550 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce MX550 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX550 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 MX550 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 slightly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q at 35 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q over the GeForce MX550.