AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

VS

AMD Radeon R5 M255

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 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 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1320MHz vs 940MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +274%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

Gem System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

940 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

721.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

45.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

25W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

TU117

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

MX550

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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