NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon RX 6550S

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

AMD Radeon RX 6550S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6550S 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 148% (2400MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S +89%

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

Radeon RX 6550S

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 800M

Generation

Navi Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

-

1344

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Navi 24

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 24

Kepler

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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