NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

400 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP +120%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

60W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Baffin

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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