AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +106%

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

TU117

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

MX550

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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