NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

AMD Radeon HD 6490M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1320MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +955%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon HD 6490M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce MX

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

-

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

16

SM Count

-

1024

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Seymour

MX550

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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