NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX550 AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1320MHz vs 1077MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +83%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce MX

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1024

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.46 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.1 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.963 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.963 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

310.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

Ellesmere

MX550

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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