AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP +27%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

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

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

640

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF100

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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