A few days ago, NVIDIA surprised us all with their new graphics cards for RTX 2050 and MX500 laptops, which we weren’t expecting at all. Both are so-called entry-level GPUs, designed for modest computers, but which require more graphics capacity than an integrated one. How are the NVIDIA RTX 2050 and MX550 performing?
Integrated GPUs generally have three issues that affect performance. The first of these is that they run at slower clock speeds than the architecture allows them so as not to thermally suffocate the CPU which is on the same chip, on the other hand, having to share the access to RAM and finally, we have the little space they have for larger configurations.
However, dedicated graphics cards are usually associated mentally with the amateur PC video game user or high-caliber multimedia content creators. Of course, not everyone needs this power, however, at the same time, the performance of an integrated system is not enough. So entry-level or very low-end GPUs are designed for this potential audience and the MX550 and RTX 2050 are an example.
NVIDIA RTX 2050 and MX550 GPU performance
Even if we will have to wait until spring 2022 to see laptops with the RTX 2050 and MX550, we finally know what their performance will be. More precisely through the benchmark TimeSpy included in 3DMark where the RTX 3050 obtained a graphical result of 3369 points and the MX550 2510 points.
The RTX 2050 uses the GPU GA107, the one with the fewest features with the GeForce Ampere architecture, so it has technologies such as Ray tracing and DLSS
From the RTX 2050 we do not know the clock speed on which it was tested in TimeSpy, let’s not forget that it is common to see different variations for different TDPs. However, on the MX550 we do know the clock speed at which the TimeSpy performance test was performed, 1320 MHz.
An ideal generation for Lapsed Gamers
The appearance of the Intel ARC A300, AMD Radeon RX 6500 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 GPUs is an opportunity for Lapsed Gamers to renew their equipment. These are users who are fond of video games who do not buy the latest news and tend to buy old games which they can enjoy at their leisure with their computer.
The RTX 2050, and to a lesser extent the MX550, aren’t high-end GPUs that are going to move you around with next-gen gaming, but if you’re one of those people with a good collection of classic games for Steam, they will. will. be a good alternative. . Especially since laptops with more powerful GPUs will experience a price increase due to component shortages and mining.