AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand 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 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +164%

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

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GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Apr 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

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

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

144

32

TMUs

24

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

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.28 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GF116

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GF116-150-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

None

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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