NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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 490 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP +17%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

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

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

480

Shading Units

640

60

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Baffin

GF100-375-A3

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

Board Design

365W

TDP

60W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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