NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Dec 2010
Generation
GeForce MX
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1065 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64bit
256bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
—
Shading Units
1024
1536
TMUs
32
96
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU117
Cayman
GPU Variant
MX550
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Architecture
Turing
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.7 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
25W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
7.5
—
Shader Model
6.6
5.0
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.