NVIDIA T550 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA T550 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 580 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA T550 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • 8x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 185 Watt
Launch date May 2022 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed 1665 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580

  • Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1065 MHz
  • Around 81% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 106.6 GTexel/s
  • 2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 5.3x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
  • Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 771 vs 408
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8878 vs 4848
  • Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 42148 vs 35299
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 106.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 771 vs 408
PassMark - G3D Mark 8878 vs 4848
Geekbench - OpenCL 42148 vs 35299

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA T550 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
408
771
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4848
8878
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
35299
42148
Name NVIDIA T550 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 580
PassMark - G2D Mark 408 771
PassMark - G3D Mark 4848 8878
Geekbench - OpenCL 35299 42148
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 116.142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1022.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 84.034
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 607.721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4360

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA T550 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 580

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 4.0
Code name TU117 Polaris 20
Launch date May 2022 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 329 331
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Price now $169.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 76.21

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 1340 MHz
Core clock speed 1065 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 106.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.820 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 3.410 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 2304
Pixel fill rate 53.28 GPixel/s 42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate 106.6 GTexel/s 192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 185 Watt
Transistor count 4700 million 5,700 million
Compute units 36
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture Units 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 96.00 GB/s 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready