NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 +30%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/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

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Lexa

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

103 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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