AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile 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 RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540 Mobile +339%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

VS

GeForce GT 550M

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

Jan 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.960 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.84 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

284.2 GFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF108

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

N12P-GT1-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

103 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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