NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac

NVIDIA GeForce MX550
AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac
1024 Shaders
2GB GDDR6
1320MHz
160 Shaders
256MB GDDR5
750MHz
Peak AI Performance
5.41 TFLOPS
FP16
Peak AI Performance
240 GFLOPS
FP32
FP32
2.7 TFLOPS
FP32
240 GFLOPS
FP16
5.41 TFLOPS
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Form Factor
Soldered
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Form Factor
Soldered
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TDP
25W
TDP
25W
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GB6 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB5 OpenCL 31,280
10%
GB5 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA 36,190
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GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
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GB5 Metal N/A
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GB5 Vulkan 28,095
14%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
0%
OCT 2020.1 60
8%
OCT 2020.1 N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Manufacturer
AMD
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
AMD
Architecture
Turing
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Family
GeForce MX
Family
Radeon HD 6000
Codename
NV167
TU117
Variant
GN18-S5-A1
Codename
Caicos
RV910
Variant
Seymour XT
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
3/1/2022
Release Date
1/4/2011
Foundry
TSMC
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
12FFN
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Fabrication Node
40nm
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Die Size
200 mm²
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Die Size
67 mm²
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Transistor Count
4.7 Billion
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Transistor Count
370 Million
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Transistor Density
23.50M/mm²
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Transistor Density
5.52M/mm²
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Form
Soldered
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
1024 Shaders
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Shading Units
160 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
32 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
8 TMUs
Render Output Units
16 ROPs
Render Output Units
4 ROPs
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Streaming Multiprocessors
8 SMs
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Compute Units
2 CUs
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Graphics Processing Clusters
2 GPCs
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1065MHz Base
1320MHz
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750MHz
Peak AI Performance
5.41 TFLOPS
FP16
Peak AI Performance
240 GFLOPS
FP32
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FP16
5.41 TFLOPS
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FP32
2.7 TFLOPS
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FP32
240 GFLOPS
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FP64
80 GFLOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
21.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
3 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
42.24 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
6 GTexel/s
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L1
32KB/SM Tex
64KB/SM
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L1
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8KB/CU
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L2
1MB Shared
L2
128KB Shared
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2GB
GDDR6
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256MB
GDDR5
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Bus Width
64Bit
Bus Width
64Bit
Clock
1500MHz
Transfer Rate
12GT/s
Bandwidth
96GB/s
Clock
794MHz
Transfer Rate
3.2GT/s
Bandwidth
25.4GB/s
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TDP
25W
TDP
25W
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No Ports
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No Ports
Max Resolution
7680x4320
Max Resolution
2560x1600
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Variable Refresh Rate
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
3
Multi Monitor Support
2
Content Protection
HDCP 2.2
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No Encoders
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No Encoders
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No Decoders
Model
UVD 3.0
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Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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AVC (H.264)
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Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_1
Direct X
11
Direct 3D
11_1
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
OpenCL
1.2
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Shader Model
6.6
CUDA
7.5
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PureVideo HD
VP10
VDPAU
Feature Set J
Shader Model
5.0
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GFX
4
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Not a Card
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Not a Card
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PCIe Version
4.0
PCIe Lanes
4
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PCIe Version
2.1
PCIe Lanes
16
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Change Comparison