NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +1593%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Apr 2018

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

4GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

640

144

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

Lexa

GB206

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

0

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.2 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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