AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550X and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550X

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 411 vs 265
95.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2284 vs 24

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 22 December 2003
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	411 vs 265
PassMark - G3D Mark	2284 vs 24

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

4.5x lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

411

265

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2284

Name	AMD Radeon RX 550X	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
PassMark - G2D Mark	411	265
PassMark - G3D Mark	2284	24
Geekbench - OpenCL	8957
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3428
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3428
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3139
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3349

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 550X	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Curie
Code name	Lexa	MCP51
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	22 December 2003
Place in performance rating	641	639
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz
Compute units	8/10
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.65 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	512
Pixel fill rate	20.60 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512/640
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s
Texture Units	40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	11 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCI
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support