AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1770MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +395%

5.437 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Feb 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.96 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

TU116

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

TU116-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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