AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 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 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

296 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +104%

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Nov 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

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

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

216

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GT200B

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

171W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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