NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1320MHz vs 700MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +403%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce MX

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1024

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

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

5.600 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Mars

MX550

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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