NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +163%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce MX

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

-

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1024

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Heathrow

MX550

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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