NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +793%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

232 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

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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