GeForce MX550 vs Radeon R5 M255
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1320MHz vs 940MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
+274%
2703
Radeon R5 M255
721
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2014
GeForce MX
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
925 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
940 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
16
SM Count
-
1024
Shading Units
384
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
8
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.520 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.56 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
721.9 GFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
721.9 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
45.12 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
Topaz
MX550
GPU Variant
Topaz PRO
(216-0858030)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
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