NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5276 points

219% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

41 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

890% significantly higher Blender score

233.88 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36084 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33865 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32349 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

1320 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

274% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

25 W

580% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

303% significantly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

371% significantly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

371% significantly better floating point performance

2.70 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

250% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 3060 vs GeForce MX550 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the GeForce MX550 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 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 RTX 3060 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 RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the GeForce MX550.