NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon R9 M280X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1320MHz vs 1000MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +50%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon R9 M280X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce MX

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1024

Shading Units

896

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Saturn

MX550

GPU Variant

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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