T550 Mobile vs Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 391 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 37.74 |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) | Turing (2018−2022) |
| GPU code name | Spectre SL | TU117 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Mobile workstation |
| Release date | 17 September 2014 (10 years ago) | May 2022 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 256 | 1024 |
| Core clock speed | 626 MHz | 1065 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 847 MHz | 1665 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 2,410 million | 4,700 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 12 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 17 Watt | 23 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 10.02 | 106.6 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.3205 TFLOPS | 3.41 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 8 | 32 |
| TMUs | 16 | 64 |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | no data | medium sized |
| Interface | IGP | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 4 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 1500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 96 GB/s |
| Shared memory | no data | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (6.0) | 6.6 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.170 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | - | 7.5 |
Pros & cons summary
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 12 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 17 Watt | 23 Watt |
R5 Mobile Graphics has 35.3% lower power consumption.
T550 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics and T550 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics is a notebook graphics card while T550 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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