GeForce MX550 vs GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated402
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data33.63
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU117BTU117S
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 April 2020 (4 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10241024
Core clock speed1380 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speed1515 MHz1320 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate96.9642.24
Floating-point processing power3.103 TFLOPS2.703 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs6432

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 April 2020 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 25 Watt

GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GeForce MX550, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh and GeForce MX550. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh
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NVIDIA GeForce MX550
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