AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 840A

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AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 840A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1176MHz vs 1124MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 840A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X Mobile +74%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce 840A

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

VS

GeForce 840A

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

1.505 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

94.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GM108

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

50W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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