Jetson Xavier NX GPU vs Radeon 550X 640SP

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameLexaGV10B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

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 cores640384
Core clock speed1019 MHz854 MHz
Boost clock speed1071 MHz1377 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million9,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate42.8433.05
Floating-point processing power1.371 TFLOPS1.058 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4024
Tensor Coresno data48

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 x8IGP
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth48 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 14 May 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

Jetson Xavier NX GPU has an age advantage of 2 years, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 550X 640SP and Jetson Xavier NX GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 550X 640SP is a desktop card while Jetson Xavier NX GPU is a notebook one.


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