NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon HD 6870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1320MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +150%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1024

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Granville

MX550

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

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