AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580X +1847%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X

VS

GeForce GT 550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

218.9GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2304

Shading Units

96

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.960 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.84 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

284.2 GFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

35W

-

2x HDMI 2.0b

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF108

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

N12P-GT1-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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