GeForce MX550 vs Radeon E8870
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1320MHz
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
Radeon E8870 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
+75%
2703
Radeon E8870
1536
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Sep 2015
GeForce MX
Generation
Embedded
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
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
16
SM Count
-
1024
Shading Units
768
32
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
16
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
48.00 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
Saturn
MX550
GPU Variant
Saturn PRO
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
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.3
