AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition +19%

1.962 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

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Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

May 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

16

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.66 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.31 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.962 TFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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