Radeon 550X Mobile vs RX Vega M GL / 870

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking434not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency15.01no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameVega Kaby Lake-GPolaris 23
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2018 (8 years ago)11 April 2018 (8 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 cores1280640
Core clock speed931 MHz1100 MHz
Boost clock speed1011 MHz1287 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data51.48
Floating-point processing powerno data1.647 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data40
L1 Cacheno data160 KB
L2 Cacheno data256 KB

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 11 April 2018
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 50 Watt

550X Mobile has an age advantage of 3 months, and 30% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 and Radeon 550X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

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