GeForce MX550 and Arctic Sound-M - video card comparison

GeForce MX550

Arctic Sound-M

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Generation 12.5 (2021−2022)

GPU code name

GN18-S5

Arctic Sound

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

December 2021

2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1320 MHz

Core clock speed

900 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

10 nm

Number of transistors

4,700 million

8,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

8192

Power consumption (TDP)

15-25 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

42.24

230.4

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

12000 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

N/A

Optimus