AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X 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 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1320MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +37%

3.723 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

Crystal System

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

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

116.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

3.723 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

3.723 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

232.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

TU117

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

MX550

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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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