AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550X Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce 920A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 91% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 575 MHz
5595.7x more texture fill rate: 51.48 GTexel/s vs 9.2 GTexel / s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
3.9x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
2.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10522 vs 3693

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s vs 9.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	10522 vs 3693

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920A

267.6x better floating-point performance: 441.6 gflops vs 1.65 TFLOPs
Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 50 Watt

Floating-point performance	441.6 gflops vs 1.65 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10522

3693

Name	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 920A
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2522
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2522
Geekbench - OpenCL	10522	3693
PassMark - G3D Mark		836
PassMark - G2D Mark		159

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 920A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Lexa	GK208B
Design	Radeon 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	1179	1182
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz
Compute units	8/10
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.65 TFLOPs	441.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640	384
Pixel fill rate	20.60 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512/640
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s	9.2 GTexel / s
Texture Units	40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	56 GB/s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support