Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2014 | Jul 2017 |
| Generation | GeForce 900 | Mobility Radeon |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1050 MHz | 1100 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | 1287 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 224.4GB/s | 96.00GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1664 | 640 |
| TMUs | 104 | 40 |
| ROPs | 56 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 512 KB |
| Compute Units | 10 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 65.97 GPixel/s | 20.59 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 122.5 GTexel/s | 51.48 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.920 TFLOPS | 1.647 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 122.5 GFLOPS | 103.0 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 1.647 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM204 | Lexa |
| GPU Variant | GM204-200-A1 | Lexa PRO(215-0904018) |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 4.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | GlobalFoundries |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 14 nm |
| Transistors | 5.2 billion | 2.2 billion |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | 103 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 148W | 50W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | None |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.4 |