NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +106%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce MX

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

-

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1024

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Blackcomb

MX550

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

5

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

6

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

7

NVIDIA GeForce MX570 A vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

8

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

9

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD FirePro M6000

10

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand