AMD Radeon 550X Mobile: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon 550X Mobile sales 11 April 2018. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 48 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.

We have no data on Radeon 550X Mobile benchmark results.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon 550X Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 23
Market segmentLaptop
Release date11 April 2018 (5 years old)
Current price$467 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

Radeon 550X Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 550X Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores640of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1100 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1287 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors2,200 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate51.48of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance1,647 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon 550X Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 550X Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed6000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth48 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 550X Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by Radeon 550X Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 550X Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


We have no data on Radeon 550X Mobile benchmark results.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon 550X Mobile is GeForce GTX 980M.

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