AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and a Mobile platform GPU: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +37%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce MX

Desktop

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

TU117

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

MX550

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

-

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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