Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce MX550 - video card comparison

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

GeForce MX550

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Broadway-XT

GN18-S5

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

January 2010

December 2021

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1320 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,120.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

1,040 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

15-25 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.00

42.24

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

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