Component comparison

GeForce MX550 vs RTX A1000

GeForce MX550 vs RTX A1000 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce MX550

Components are close in specs

B RTX A1000
  • + Release year (+3)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+6 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+128 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+25 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
  • + CUDA cores (+1280)
  • + TMUs (+40)
  • + ROPs (+16)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+4.03 TFLOPS)
  • + Energy efficiency (+7.1)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+6334)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+19576)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+18075)
  • + Normalized score (+8.1)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce MX550
Component B
RTX A1000
Release year 2021 2024 (+3)
VRAM (GB) 2 GB 8 GB (+6 GB)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1500 MHz 1500 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 96 GB/s 224 GB/s (+128 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 64 bit 128 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 25 W 50 W (+25 W)
Lithography (nm) 12 nm 8 nm (-4 nm)
Transistors (M) 4,700M —
Die size (mm²) 200 mm² —
Base clock (MHz) 1065 MHz —
Boost clock (MHz) 1320 MHz —
CUDA cores 1,024 2,304 (+1280)
TMUs 32 72 (+40)
ROPs 16 32 (+16)
RT cores — 18
Tensor cores — 72
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 2.70 TFLOPS 6.74 TFLOPS (+4.03 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 21.12 GPixel/s —
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 42.24 GTexel/s —
Energy efficiency 32.8 39.9 (+7.1)
PassMark (overall) 4,419 10,753 (+6334)
3DMark Time Spy 2,470 —
3DMark Fire Strike 6,126 —
Geekbench OpenCL 34,068 53,644 (+19576)
Geekbench Vulkan 32,369 50,444 (+18075)
Normalized score 49.1 57.2 (+8.1)

Only in component B

DLSS ReBAR

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce MX550 RTX A1000 Delta
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: RTX A1000 wins 15 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).