AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1287MHz vs 775MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 Mobile +66%

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Apr 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Venus

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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