AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1695MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +295%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

Polaris

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GA107

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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