NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1680MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +432%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 +523%

7483

Radeon RX 550

1200

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +300%

24

Radeon RX 550

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +350%

54

Radeon RX 550

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +285%

81

Radeon RX 550

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +514%

43

Radeon RX 550

7

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +442%

76

Radeon RX 550

14

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +450%

110

Radeon RX 550

20

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +73%

146

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 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

18.93 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 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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