AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

VS

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 113% (2520MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +2563%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2025

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

532.6GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

50

512

Shading Units

6400

32

TMUs

200

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

40 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GB205

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GB205

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.8

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