Radeon RX 570X vs E9550 MXM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated625
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data2.87
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameEllesmerePolaris 20
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date27 September 2016 (8 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores23042048
Core clock speed1120 MHz1168 MHz
Boost clock speed1266 MHz1244 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate182.3159.2
Floating-point processing power5.834 TFLOPS5.095 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs144128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 September 2016 11 April 2018
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 120 Watt

E9550 MXM has 26.3% lower power consumption.

RX 570X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E9550 MXM and Radeon RX 570X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon E9550 MXM is a notebook card while Radeon RX 570X is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
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