NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP +1%

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 400

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

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Baffin

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

3 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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