AMD Radeon RX 6550S vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6550S

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S 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 6550S 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 131% (2400MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550S +84%

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Oct 2014

Navi Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 24

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

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

6.7 (6.4)

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