NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1095MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile +294%

1.121 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

Radeon 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 500M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.52 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1121 GFLOPS

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1121 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Lexa

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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