AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1218MHz vs 1058MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +160%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Mar 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GK104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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