Radeon RX 550 Mobile and GeForce GTS 250 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

GeForce GTS 250

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

G92B

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

March 2009

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

6-pin

SLI options

-

+

Boost clock speed

1476 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1287 MHz

738 MHz

CUDA cores

-

128

Floating-point performance

1,647 gflops

387.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

754 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

128

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

150 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

105 °C

Texture fill rate

51.48

47.2 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

1100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

70.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

Two Dual Link DVI

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF

DirectX

12 (12_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

FreeSync

+

-