Quadro RTX 6000 Mobile vs Radeon 550X 640SP

Primary details

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

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ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameLexaTU102
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)4 September 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores6404608
Core clock speed1019 MHz1275 MHz
Boost clock speed1071 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate42.84419.0
Floating-point processing power1.371 TFLOPS13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs40288
Tensor Coresno data576
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s672.0 GB/s
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 DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 4 September 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 200 Watt

550X 640SP has 300% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 550X 640SP and Quadro RTX 6000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 550X 640SP is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 6000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP
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