GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1183MHz vs 902MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +243%

4156

Radeon 550

1211

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

2304

Shading Units

512

192

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Lexa

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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