AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +718%

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

0.134 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Sep 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

512

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GF108

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

116 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

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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