AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580X NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1320MHz vs 1200MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580X +104%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

218.9GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

TU117

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

MX550

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

2x HDMI 2.0b

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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