Component comparison
GeForce MX350 vs RTX A500
GeForce MX350 vs RTX A500 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce MX350
- + Memory clock (MHz) (+2 MHz)
- + Energy efficiency (+5.9)
- + Normalized score (+15.0)
B
RTX A500
- + Release year (+1)
- + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+56 GB/s)
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+40 W)
- + Lithography (nm) (-6 nm)
- + Boost clock (MHz) (+69 MHz)
- + CUDA cores (+1408)
- + TMUs (+32)
- + ROPs (+16)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+6.05 TFLOPS)
- + PassMark (overall) (+3720)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce MX350
|
Component B
RTX A500
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2020 | 2021 (+1) |
| VRAM (GB) | 2 GB | 4 GB (+2 GB) |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 1752 MHz (+2 MHz) | 1750 MHz |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 56 GB/s | 112 GB/s (+56 GB/s) |
| Memory bus (bit) | 64 bit | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 20 W | 60 W (+40 W) |
| Lithography (nm) | 14 nm | 8 nm (-6 nm) |
| Transistors (M) | 3,300M | — |
| Die size (mm²) | 132 mm² | — |
| Base clock (MHz) | 1354 MHz | — |
| Boost clock (MHz) | 1468 MHz | 1537 MHz (+69 MHz) |
| CUDA cores | 640 | 2,048 (+1408) |
| TMUs | 32 | 64 (+32) |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 (+16) |
| RT cores | — | 16 |
| Tensor cores | — | 64 |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 1.20 TFLOPS | 7.25 TFLOPS (+6.05 TFLOPS) |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 23.49 GPixel/s | — |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 46.98 GTexel/s | — |
| Energy efficiency | 26.1 (+5.9) | 20.2 |
| PassMark (overall) | 2,818 | 6,538 (+3720) |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 1,336 | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 4,371 | — |
| Geekbench OpenCL | 13,112 | — |
| Geekbench Vulkan | 13,369 | — |
| Normalized score | 30.8 (+15.0) | 15.8 |
Only in component B
DLSS
ReBAR
In both
CUDA
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce MX350 | RTX A500 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.
Based on the comparison:
RTX A500 wins 11 of the comparable criteria.
The choice depends on your use case.
🤔 How to choose
Universal advice for any use case.
- Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
- Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
- Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).