GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon RX 550
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1183 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 960M
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1176 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 550
GTX 960M
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
640
+25.0%
Shaders
512
640
+25.0%
TMUs
32
40
+25.0%
ROPs
16
16
0.0%
Compute Units
8
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Clocks
Base Clock
1100 MHz
1097 MHz
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
1176 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
18.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
47.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,211.4 GFLOPS
1.505 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
47.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
1,211.4 GFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
50 W
75 W
TDP (W)
50
75
+50.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
—
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
Lexa
GM107
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
GeForce 900M
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
1,870 million
Die Size
103 mm²
148 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
21.4M / mm²
12.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
145 mm
5.7 inches
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
79 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
GeForce 800M
Successor
Vega
GeForce 10 Mobile