NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +1026%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 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

794 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1024

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Seymour

MX550

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

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

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

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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