NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

NVIDIA T550 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

24% slightly better overall score

2105 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

713% significantly higher Blender score

142.83 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35193 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

31071 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

1665 MHz

11% 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

192 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

23 W

226% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

53.28 Gigapixels/s

57% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

106.6 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

3.41 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

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

170th of 586

202nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

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 RTX 3050 Laptop vs T550 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the T550 Laptop in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly 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. Despite this, the T550 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the T550 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the T550 Laptop.