NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 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 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +37%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

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Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce MX

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

-

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1024

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.66 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.31 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.962 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Pitcairn

MX550

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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