AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

111
Place in performance rating
816
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Fermi
Vega 10
Code name
GF108
Workstation
Type
Laptop
19 March 2019 (2 years ago)
Release date
6 January 2011 (10 years ago)
$671
Price now
$55
41.33
Value for money
0.27
Vega 10
GPU code name
N12P-GT
Workstation
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

3072
Pipelines
96
1200 MHz
Core clock speed
740 MHz
1300 MHz
Boost Clock
no data
12,500 million
Transistor count
585 million
14 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
249.6
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
no data
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
no data
CUDA cores
96
3072
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1300 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
12,500 million
Number of transistors
585 million
no data
Thermal design power (TDP)
35 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
no data
no data
Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M can be seen in this section.

HBM2
Memory type
DDR3
8 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2048 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1572 MHz
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
402.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
no data
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M is the additional functionality.

no data
CUDA
+
no data
Optimus
+
no data
DirectX 11
DirectX 11

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 API
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
no data
Vulkan
N/A
no data
Shader Model
5.1
no data
OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

50.63% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (3072 vs 96)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 40 nm)

More memory bandwidth (402.4 GB/s vs 28.8 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

Cheaper ($55 vs $671)

More maximum RAM amount (1536 MB vs 8 GB)

So, AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 .

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 versus NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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