AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

VS

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile +340%

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2009

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

640

Shading Units

128

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

G92

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

2

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7470A

3

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M275

4

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD FirePro M4100

5

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

6

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

7

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

8

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs Intel Arc A370M

9

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 5700M

10

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early