Nvidia GeForce MX550 is presented as an entry-level graphics card based on ampere architecture

Usually on many laptops with relatively inexpensive positioning and prices, you will see the figure of Nvidia GeForce MX450. As an entry-level graphics card for mobile platforms, its TURING architecture-based GPU has 896 CUDA cores, a base frequency of 1395 MHz, an acceleration frequency of 1575 MHz, supports GDDR5/GDDR6 memory and PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, has a memory capacity of 2GB, and a memory width of 64 bits. The GeForce MX450 has a deep relationship with the new geForce GTX 1650 for mobile platforms, and the former can almost be understood as the product of halving the memory capacity and bit width of the latter.

Recently, a Lenovo laptop appeared in the Geekbench database, equipped with an Intel Core i7-1260P processor, and a new graphics card from Nvidia, which seems to be the GeForce MX550. The former has been seen many times, and this Alder Lake processor is equipped with 4 Performance Cores of golden Cove architecture and 8 Efficient Cores based on Gracemont architecture, with a base frequency of 2.5 GHz, Turbo frequency of 4.6 GHz, and 18MB of L3 cache. The latter is the successor to the GeForce MX450, based on the Ampere architecture GPU, with 2048 CUDA cores, the same as the GeForce RTX 3050 on the mobile platform, also equipped with 2GB of GDDR6 video memory, the memory bit width has not been confirmed, the chip should be based on the GA107 downsizing.

Geekbench shows that the NVIDIA GeForce MX550 has an OpenCL score of 39124, which is about a 15% to 18% improvement compared to the previous generation of GeForce MX450. Nvidia is likely to release the GeForce MX550 at CES 2022, in conjunction with Intel's upcoming release of the 12th generation Core series of mobile processors. In terms of mobile platforms, Intel will soon launch entry-level sharp Alchemy graphics, such as Xe-HPG 128EU, and I believe that the two sides will have a confrontation.