Radeon RX 590 and GeForce MX550 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce MX550

Radeon RX 590

9695

GeForce MX550

4713

Radeon RX 590

GeForce MX550

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 30

GN18-S5

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2018

December 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

1320 MHz

Core clock speed

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

15-25 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

42.24

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

FreeSync

Optimus