NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1178MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +185%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1664

Shading Units

640

104

TMUs

40

56

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Baffin

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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