NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 113% (2520MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +2457%

30.97 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 50

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

512

192

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

40 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

483.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

30.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

30.97 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

483.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 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

GB205

GPU Name

Lexa

GB205-300-A1

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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