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[Hardware] NVIDIA GeForce MX550 dGPU Barely Outperforms The AMD RDNA 2 ‘Radeon 680M’ Integrated GPU In Gaming


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AMD RDNA 2 Powered 'Radeon 680M' iGPU Shines Once Again, Delivers A Respectable 40-60 FPS In Modern AAA Games at 1080p 2

NVIDIA's recently released GeForce MX550 discrete GPU has been tested and it barely outperforms an AMD RDNA 2 'Radeon 680M' integrated GPU.

 

AMD's Integrated RDNA 2 GPU Is On Par With NVIDIA's Discrete GeForce MX550 35W GPU While Offering Superior Efficiency

The NVIDIA GeForce MX550 uses the Turing TU117 GPU. Based on the information we had earlier, the chip is a cut-down configuration featuring 1024 CUDA cores, a clock rate of up to 1320 MHz, a 2 GB GDDR6 memory interface running across a 64-bit bus at 12 Gbps clocks, and a TDP that's rated at 25W. While the GPU is based on the Turing chip, it lacks RT and DLSS capabilities since its using a GPU that's a step below the RTX offerings.

 

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 Entry-Level GPU To Tackle Both AMD Rembrandt RDNA 2 APUs & Intel Iris Xe-LP GPUs

 

NVIDIA GeForce MX Series GPU Family Specifications:

GPU Name GPU Architecture CUDA Cores GPU Clock Memory Speed Memory Bus TDP
GeForce MX570 Ampere GA107 2048 TBA - 1155 MHz 12 Gbps GDDR6 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX550 Turing TU117 1024 TBA - 1320 MHz 12 Gbps GDDR6 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 450 Turing TU117 896 540 - 1575 MHz 10 Gbps GDDR6 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 430 Turing TU117 896 TBA - TBA MHz 10 Gbps GDDR6
7 Gbps GDDR5
64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 350 Pascal GP107 640 1354-1468 MHz 7 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 350 Pascal GP107 640 746-937 MHz 7 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 15W
GeForce MX 330 Pascal GP108 384 1531-1594 MHz 6/7 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 310 Pascal GP108 256 1341-1379 MHz 6/7 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 250 Pascal GP108 384 1518-1582 MHz 6/7 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 250 Pascal GP108 384 937-1038 MHz 6 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 10.5W
GeForce MX 230 Pascal GP108 256 1518-1531 MHz 6/7 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 150 Pascal GP108 384 1468-1531 MHz 6 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 150 Pascal GP108 384 937-1038 MHz 5 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 10W
GeForce MX 130 Maxwell GM108 384 1122-1242 MHz 6 Gbps GDDR5 64-bit 25W
GeForce MX 110 Maxwell GM108 256 963-993 MHz 1.8 Gbps DDR3 64-bit 10W

The AMD Radeon 600M series integrated GPUs, based on the RDNA 2 graphics architecture, are what's adopted by the Ryzen 6000 APUs, offering up to 12 Compute Units for 768 cores and up to 2.4 GHz GPU frequencies. The Radeon 600M GPUs pack a 50% large compute engine than the early Vega iGPUs, 50% higher bandwidth, twice the L2 cache, and twice the render backends (RB+).

The Radeon 600M is split into two SKUs, the Radeon 680M which is featured on Ryzen 9 & Ryzen 7 chips, packing the full 12 CU & 2.4 GHz configuration (4 RB+). This particular review included AMD's Ryzen 7 6800H which has the Radeon 680M running at 2.2 GHz instead of the full 2.4 GHz on high-end HX parts. The Radeon 660M powers the Ryzen 5 APUs with up to 6 CUs, 1.9 GHz clocks and 2 Render backends. Both chips were tested within these benchmarks.

 

AMD RDNA 2 Radeon 600M iGPU vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550 dGPU (Synthetic Benchmarks):

So coming to the performance metrics, the AMD Radeon 680M ended up 25% faster in 3DMark Fire Strike, 5% faster in Time Spy, and since it features ray tracing capabilities unlike the NVIDIA discrete GPU, it won the Port Royal benchmark uncontested. Meanwhile, the Radeon 660M which has half the compute units was only able to match in performance to an Intel Alder Lake Core i7-1280P CPU with Iris Xe graphics.

AMD Radeon 680M & 660M RDNA 2 iGPUs vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550 & Intel Iris Xe in Synthetic Benchmarks. (Image Credits: Weibo)

 

AMD RDNA 2 Radeon 600M iGPU vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550 dGPU (Gaming Benchmarks):

Moving from synthetic to gaming benchmarks, a range of titles were tested at 1080p which include both AAA and eSports games. In 9 of the 14 games, the AMD Radeon 680M iGPU was able to out-perform the NVIDIA GeForce MX550. The Radeon 660M was able to beat the Intel Iris Xe iGPU in a total of 13 out of 14 titles.

Overall, the NVIDIA GeForce MX550, despite its discrete and higher TDP design, was only able to offer 5% higher performance than the AMD Ryzen 7 6800H's integrated solution, the Radeon 680M. The Ryzen 5 6600H was able to deliver a 39% uplift over Intel's Iris Xe iGPU. Once again, the 2.4 GHz Radeon 680M has the potential to even surpass the GeForce MX550, and it's impressive coming from an integrated chip that is competing against a discrete GPU that consumes around 35W of power.

 

AMD Radeon 680M & 660M RDNA 2 iGPUs vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550 & Intel Iris Xe in Gaming Benchmarks. (Image Credits: Weibo)

 

We have also seen the AMD Radeon 680M iGPU with RDNA 2 graphics deliver spectacular gaming performance across several titles in detailed testing by TechEpiphany on his new channel known as AMD APU Gaming. We covered a few of his tests in our post here but do make sure to check out the new channel for more performance tests of the most powerful integrated GPU available on PCs at the moment.

 

AMD Ryzen 6000H 'Rembrandt' APU Lineup For Notebooks:

APU Name APU Family Architecture Process Cores / Threads Base Clock Boost Clock L3 Cache Graphics TDP
Ryzen 9 6980HX Rembrandt H Zen 3+ 6nm 8 / 16 3.3 GHz 5.00 GHz 16 MB 12 CU RDNA 2 (2400 MHz) 45W+
Ryzen 9 6980HS Rembrandt H Zen 3+ 6nm 8 / 16 3.3 GHz 5.00 GHz 16 MB 12 CU RDNA 2 (2400 MHz) 35W
Ryzen 9 6900HX Rembrandt H Zen 3+ 6nm 8 / 16 3.3 GHz 4.90 GHz 16 MB 12 CU RDNA 2 (2400 MHz) 45W+
Ryzen 9 6900HS Rembrandt H Zen 3+ 6nm 8 / 16 3.3 GHz 4.90 GHz 16 MB 12 CU RDNA 2 (2400 MHz) 35W
Ryzen 7 6800H Rembrandt H Zen 3+ 6nm 8 / 16 3.2 GHz 4.70 GHz 16 MB 12 CU RDNA 2 (2200 MHz) 45W
Ryzen 7 6800HS Rembrandt H Zen 3+ 6nm 8 / 16 3.2 GHz 4.70 GHz 16 MB 12 CU RDNA 2 (2200 MHz) 35W
Ryzen 5 6600H Rembrandt H Zen 3+ 6nm 6 / 12 3.3 GHz 4.50 GHz 16 MB 6 CU RDNA 2 (1900 MHz) 45W
Ryzen 5 6600HS Rembrandt H Zen 3+ 6nm 6 / 12 3.3 GHz 4.50 GHz 16 MB 6 CU RDNA 2 (1900 MHz)
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