NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X 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 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +37%

3.723 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce MX

Generation

Crystal System

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

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

16

SM Count

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.09 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

116.4 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.723 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.723 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

232.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Amethyst

MX550

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Turing

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

366 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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