NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1683MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +371%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

15

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

640

120

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

60W

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

Baffin

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 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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