AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1287MHz vs 1140MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +183%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Sep 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM204

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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