AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

VS

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1287MHz vs 855MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile +322%

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

5

-

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.880 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Jet

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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