AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6550M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 141% (2840MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (80W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550M +48%

5.816 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX 6550M +21%

381

GeForce GTX 980MX

314

Radeon RX 6550M

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jun 2016

Navi Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2840 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1664

64

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

64

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

181.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

11.63 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.816 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

363.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

148W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 24

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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