AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1468MHz vs 1218MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +10%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2017

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1228 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

512

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP108

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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