GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon RX 550 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 970M SLI

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

-

Polaris 12

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

October 2014

March 2017

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x8

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1038 MHz

1476 MHz

Core clock speed

924 MHz

1287 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

1,647 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

640

Power consumption (TDP)

162 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

51.48

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 6 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

2x 192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12_1

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

2.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

FreeSync

-

+

Optimus

+

-