AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 Mobile and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1287MHz vs 967MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +57%

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Mar 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1344

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GK104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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