NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 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 RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 135% (2520MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +840%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 50

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

300 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

GB207

GPU Name

Baffin

GB207

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

0 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

3 billion

Unknown

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

9.1

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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