M3 and GeForce MX550 - video card comparison

M3

GeForce MX550

Architecture

Rage 4 (1998−1999)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

M3

GN18-S5

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

-

December 2021

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

250 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

8 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

-

15-25 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

42.24

Memory type

-

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

-

2 GB

Memory bus width

-

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

6.0

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

Optimus

-

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