AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1176MHz vs 1038MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +76%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Oct 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

1.505 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

94.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

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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