NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

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Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

94.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Polaris 23

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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