AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +289%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

0.311 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.240 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.96 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

311.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

25.92 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF108

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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