NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1320MHz vs 1176MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +79%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce MX

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1024

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

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

18.82 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1.505 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

94.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Polaris 23

MX550

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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