NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

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 590 +930%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 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

49.44 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

175W

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 30

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

12 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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