AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 135% (2520MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +840%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

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GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2025

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GB207

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GB207

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

0 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

9.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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