Product Compare
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Apr 2018 | May 2013 |
| Generation | Mobility Radeon | Solar System |
| Type | Mobile | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1100 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1176 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 64bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 48.00GB/s | 88.00GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 10 | 12 |
| Shading Units | 640 | 768 |
| TMUs | 40 | 48 |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 256 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 18.82 GPixel/s | 17.20 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 47.04 GTexel/s | 51.60 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 1.505 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 1.505 TFLOPS | 1.651 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 94.08 GFLOPS | 103.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Polaris 23 | Saturn |
| GPU Variant | Polaris 23 MXT | Saturn XT |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | GCN 2.0 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Process Size | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.2 billion | 2.08 billion |
| Die Size | 103 mm² | 160 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 50W | 100W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | None | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.3 |