NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and AMD Radeon E9550 MXM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1537 MHz vs 1266 MHz
  • 539.6x more texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 182.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 41556 vs 36624
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 vs 27 September 2016
Boost clock speed 1537 MHz vs 1266 MHz
Texture fill rate 98.37 GTexel/s vs 182.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 41556 vs 36624

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

  • Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 832 MHz
  • Around 13% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 2048
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1120 MHz vs 832 MHz
Pipelines 2304 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
41556
36624
Name NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
Geekbench - OpenCL 41556 36624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 112.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1474.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 96.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 507.291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3208

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 4.0
Code name GA107S Ellesmere
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 27 September 2016
Place in performance rating 519 516
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1537 MHz 1266 MHz
Core clock speed 832 MHz 1120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.296 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 2304
Pixel fill rate 73.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 98.37 GTexel/s 182.3 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 5,834 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 96.00 GB/s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5