AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA Quadro P4200 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

275.5x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 137.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100 Watt

Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 137.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 100 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1227 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 39% higher boost clock speed: 1647 MHz vs 1183 MHz
3.5x more pipelines: 1792 vs 512
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
3.4x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 525 vs 454
5.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10579 vs 1885

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 February 2018 vs 20 Apr 2017
Core clock speed	1227 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1647 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Pipelines	1792 vs 512
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	525 vs 454
PassMark - G3D Mark	10579 vs 1885

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

454

525

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1885

10579

Name	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	454	525
PassMark - G3D Mark	1885	10579
Geekbench - OpenCL		34875
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		103
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		103
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Pascal
Code name	Lexa	GP104
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	21 February 2018
Place in performance rating	285	286
Type		Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1647 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1227 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	1792
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	137.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	7,200 million
Floating-point performance		4,398 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	192.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	6008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5