AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +15%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

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

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

336

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF114

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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