NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

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

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

21248 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +9900%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

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

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

512

680

TMUs

32

192

ROPs

16

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

88 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

50W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

Baffin

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

4 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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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