Radeon R9 290X and GeForce MX550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce MX550
Radeon R9 290X
7648
GeForce MX550
4713
Radeon R9 290X
GeForce MX550
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
GN18-S5
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2013
December 2021
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
4,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
15-25 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
42.24
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.2
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-