AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 735 MHz

Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 735 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1245 MHz vs 1183 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 79.68 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
4x more pipelines: 2048 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 50 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 468 vs 457
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7666 vs 1980

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Dec 2021 vs 20 Apr 2017
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2048 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	468 vs 457
PassMark - G3D Mark	7666 vs 1980

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

457

468

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1980

7666

Name	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	457	468
PassMark - G3D Mark	1980	7666
Geekbench - OpenCL		43057
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3910

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Ampere
Code name	Lexa	GA107
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	17 Dec 2021
Place in performance rating	292	295
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1245 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)	159.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)	10.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS	5.100 TFLOPS
Pipelines	512	2048
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s	39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	79.68 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches	229 mm, 9 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Height		35 mm, 1.4 inches
Width		113 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	112.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6