NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 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

2244 points

36% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

53 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

41 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

37 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

445.31 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

233.88 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38315 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36084 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39842 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33865 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37542 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32349 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1485 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

26% 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

128.1 GB/s

33% 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

53.28 Gigapixels/s

152% significantly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

93.24 Gigatexels/s

120% significantly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.98 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

2.70 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

1024

14% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

75% 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

196th of 596

234th of 596

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 1650 vs GeForce MX550 benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1650 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 1650 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX550 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1650 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 GTX 1650 over the GeForce MX550.