AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1320MHz vs 1250MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +231%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

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

1138 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

224

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

TU117

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

MX550

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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