AMD Radeon R9 M385X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M385X NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385X 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 M385X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1320MHz vs 1100MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M385X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +37%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385X

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

Gem System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

76.80GB/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

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FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

TU117

Strato XT

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

Unknown

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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