NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 131% (2475MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +2557%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

512

184

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

36 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Baffin

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

123 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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