AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Jan 2022
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce MX
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
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1065 MHz
Boost Clock
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1320 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
64bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
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Shading Units
1024
1024
TMUs
64
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
27.52 GPixel/s
21.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
55.04 GTexel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.761 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
110.1 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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2.703 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
TU117
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
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
130W
25W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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
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7.5
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,334
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
325
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.