AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1320MHz vs 975MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
GeForce MX550
+35%
2.703 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
1065 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1024
Shading Units
1024
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
TU117
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
MX550
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
