AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +106%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

960

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

TU117

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

MX550

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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