NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile +479%

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

Radeon 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 500M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1287 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.59 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.647 TFLOPS

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.647 TFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Polaris 23

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

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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