NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon 550X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1683MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +418%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

15

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

512

120

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Lexa

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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