Radeon R7 265 and GeForce MX550 - video card comparison

Radeon R7 265

GeForce MX550

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

GN18-S5

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

February 2014

December 2021

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,894 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

15-25 Watt

Texture fill rate

59.20

42.24

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1400 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

-

1.2

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

Optimus

-

+

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-