AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA RTX A2000 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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).

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 90% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 95 Watt
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)

Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 735 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

Around 53% higher boost clock speed: 1815 MHz vs 1183 MHz
3.8x more texture fill rate: 145.2 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 481 vs 463
4.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9934 vs 2027

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1815 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate	145.2 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2560 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	481 vs 463
PassMark - G3D Mark	9934 vs 2027

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

463

481

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2027

9934

Name	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	463	481
PassMark - G3D Mark	2027	9934
Geekbench - OpenCL		56817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		202.984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2138.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		16.498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		151.433
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		729.947
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12750
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12750
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3355

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Ampere
Code name	Lexa	GA106
Launch date	20 Apr 2017
Place in performance rating	285	282
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1815 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)	145.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)	9.293 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS	9.293 TFLOPS
Pipelines	512	2560
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s	87.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	145.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	95 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	13250 million
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	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12.2
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	192 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6