AMD Radeon RX 6550S vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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AMD Radeon RX 6550S

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6550S 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 148% (2400MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550S +89%

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Mar 2014

Navi Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1344

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

24

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GK104

Navi 24

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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