Radeon 550 vs GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated609
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data4.37
Power efficiencyno data7.48
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameTU106BLexa
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 June 2020 (4 years ago)20 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$79

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304512
Core clock speed900 MHz1100 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHz1183 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate162.037.86
Floating-point processing power5.184 TFLOPS1.211 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs14432
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth352.0 GB/s56 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 June 2020 20 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

Radeon 550, on the other hand, has 130% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon 550. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon 550 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh
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