AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1455MHz vs 1218MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 +49%

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Oct 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

5

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP107

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

132 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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