AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1183MHz vs 902MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 +243%

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2013

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GK110B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GK110-300-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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