
Radeon 550 and Switch GPU - video card comparison
Radeon 550
Switch GPU
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Lexa
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
768 MHz
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
256
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
12.29
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7 GB/s
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
56 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.3
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.4
Vulkan
1.3
1.1.126