Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2022 Nov 2012
Generation GeForce MX Southern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1065 MHz 925 MHz
Boost Clock 1320 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 64bit 256bit
Bandwidth 96.00GB/s 192.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 16
Shading Units 1024 1536
TMUs 32 96
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Compute Units 24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 21.12 GPixel/s 31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 42.24 GTexel/s 93.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 2.703 TFLOPS 2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 42.24 GFLOPS 748.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name TU117 Tahiti
GPU Variant MX550 Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.7 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 200 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 25W 185W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 7.5
Shader Model 6.6 5.1