AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Jan 2022
Generation
Solar System
GeForce MX
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
64bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
1024
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
21.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
TU117
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
MX550
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
4.7 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
25W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
-
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
-
7.5