AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

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AMD Radeon 550X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +47%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Feb 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

957 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

91.87GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

288

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.832 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.66 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF114

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF114-200-KB-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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