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GeForce MX550 vs GTX 1650 Mobile

GeForce MX550
VS
GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
Nvidia GeForce MX550
TU117
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
TU117

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce MX550 2 GB with 8 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 9 months older GTX 1650 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1650 Laptop over GeForce MX550
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
  • Performs significantly better (up to 50%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 43% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 20 vs 14 FPS
  • 19% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.2 vs 2.7 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 192 vs 96 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
GeForce MX550
vs
GTX 1650 Mobile

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
28
16
14
-
53
29
23
14
The Witcher 3
25
19
14
-
40
33
21
9
Counter-Strike 2
48
29
20
9
69
48
33
13
Far Cry 6
32
29
18
10
41
39
26
15
Hogwarts Legacy
20
12
11
-
25
17
13
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
29
23
16
10
35
27
17
13
Ghost of Tsushima
16
-
9
-
22
15
12
-
Cyberpunk 2077
14
11
-
-
24
20
12
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
27
23
16
-
45
42
24
13
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 27 39
1080p Ultra 19 30
1440p Ultra 14 20
4K Ultra - 11
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 2378 3442
Port Royal - 6905
Fire Strike 5959 9316
Wild Life Extreme 5060 6925
Night Raid 29231 40580
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
GeForce MX550
38596
GTX 1650 Mobile +5%
40588
Background Blur 70.9 img/sec 74.4 img/sec
Face Detection 37 img/sec 42 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.28 Gpixels/sec 1.47 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.7 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.9 Gpixels/sec 1.81 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.52 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 180.5 Gpixels/sec 187 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5147.2 FPS 5347.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 384 384
DirectX 11 33 FPS 50 FPS
DirectX 12 27 FPS 27 FPS
GPU Compute 2145 Ops/s 2750 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 890 & 1754 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
GeForce MX550
231.91
GTX 1650 Mobile +62%
376.28
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 4 & 75 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 1833 2866
Image Segmentation (HP) 3301 3745
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4390 6865
Face Detection (HP) 5360 6519
Pose Estimation (Q) 15739 24706
Text Classification (SP) 1514 1793
Machine Translation (HP) 1827 1906
Object Detection (SP) 2338 3498
Depth Estimation (Q) 8861 13936
Style Transfer (SP) 37895 50917
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce MX550 and GTX 1650 Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 1, 2022 April 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Turing Turing
GPU Codename TU117 TU117
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 760M - Radeon RX 5500M
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 1260P or above - Intel Core i5 10300H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (122nd and 115th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1065 MHz 1380 MHz
Boost Clock 1320 MHz 1560 MHz
Shading Units 1024 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 16
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 21 GPixel/s 50 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42 GTexel/s 100 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
GeForce MX550
2.7 TFLOPS
GTX 1650 Mobile +19%
3.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 25 W 50 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 12 nm 12 nm
Die Size 200 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count 4.7 billion 4.7 billion
Transistor Density 23.5 MTr/mm² 23.5 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 2 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
GeForce MX550
96 GB/s
GTX 1650 Mobile +100%
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
CUDA 7.5 7.5
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
4 (36.4%)
7 (63.6%)
Total votes: 11

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