GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q and Radeon 550X Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
Radeon 550X Mobile
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
N17P-G0 Max-Q
Polaris 23
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2018
April 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1139 - 1328 MHz
1287 MHz
Core clock speed
999 - 1189 MHz
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,700 gflops
1,647 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
640
Power consumption (TDP)
34 - 40 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
53.12
51.48
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.1 GB/s
48 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131