NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

AMD Radeon HD 6990M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

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

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +68%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

1.602 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon HD 6990M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce MX

Generation

Vancouver

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

16

SM Count

-

1024

Shading Units

1120

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.88 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.04 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.602 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Blackcomb

MX550

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 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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