GeForce MX550 vs Radeon RX 570X Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated402
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data33.97
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePolarisTU117S
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 January 2019 (5 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 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 cores20481024
Core clock speedno data1065 MHz
Boost clock speed1168 MHz1320 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65-110 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data42.24
Floating-point processing powerno data2.703 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed7000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-
Optimus-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2019 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 25 Watt

RX 570X Mobile has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GeForce MX550, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 160% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 570X Mobile and GeForce MX550. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 570X Mobile
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