ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +540%

2.703 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2022

M8x

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

320

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

TU117

-

GPU Variant

MX550

TeraScale

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

4.1

Shader Model

6.6

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