AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 7 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Mar 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

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

512

Shading Units

448

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GF100

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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