GeForce MX550 vs Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 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 2 months late
Boost Clock1320MHz
Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX550
2703
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+28%
3482
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce MX
Generation
Crystal System
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
1362 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
174.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
16
SM Count
-
1024
Shading Units
2048
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
2.703 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
3.482 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
217.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
250W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
Amethyst
MX550
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Turing
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.7 billion
Transistors
5 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
366 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