AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

400 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (70.40GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +233%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

512

Shading Units

112

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G92B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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