AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 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 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1468MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +399%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2017

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

1.505 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

94.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GP104

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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