NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 590 's Advantages

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

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +13%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 500

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

-

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

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

50W

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 Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Baffin

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

520 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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