AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Mar 2011

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

854 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

365W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF110

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

520 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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