NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +63%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce MX

Generation

Solar System

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

16

SM Count

-

1024

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Saturn

MX550

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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