Radeon RX 550 and GeForce 940M - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce 940M

Radeon RX 550

2809

GeForce 940M

1156

Radeon RX 550

GeForce 940M

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Lexa

N16S-GT-S/B

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2017

March 2015

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1183 MHz

1176 MHz

Core clock speed

1100 MHz

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,211 gflops

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

384

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.86

28.22

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1.126

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus