AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1183MHz vs 1058MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +168%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2013

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GK104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon 550

2

AMD Radeon 660M vs AMD Radeon 550

3

AMD Radeon 680M vs AMD Radeon 550

4

AMD Radeon RX 6300 vs AMD Radeon 550

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER vs AMD Radeon 550

6

AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 vs AMD Radeon 550

8

AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

9

AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD FirePro W600

10

AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Related News

1

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

2

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales

3

Do You Really Know What a "Rendering Engine" Is? Read This Article to Understand All About It

4

New AMD Zen5 Ryzen 9000 Motherboards X870E/X870 to Adopt USB4! But You’ll Have to Wait Two More Months

5

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

6

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

7

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

8

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD

9

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

10

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports