NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1680MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +417%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

512

120

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Lexa

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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