AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 135W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.48GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP +229%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Dec 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

820 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

52.48GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

640

Shading Units

128

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.60 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

135W

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

G92

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G92-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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