AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1071MHz vs 1032MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 +80%

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Sep 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GK106

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

140W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

2

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon R7 435 OEM

3

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs ATI Radeon X1650

4

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon PRO W6300

5

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

6

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

7

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

8

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

9

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

10

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon R5 435 OEM

Related News

1

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

2

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD

3

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

4

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports

5

Does the Apple A18 Neural Engine Boast Superior Performance? Computational Power May Surpass M4 Chip

6

AMD's Commitment to Pioneering Each Generation with Cutting-Edge Process Technology and Continuous Innovation in Design, Packaging, and Assembly

7

NVIDIA to Ramp Up Orders and Add New Suppliers to Meet Explosive Demand for Blackwell Products

8

NVIDIA Informs Brands of Reduced Supply for RTX 40 Series GPUs

9

Only 3 Weeks Left! AMD Zen5 Launching Soon

10

Ilya Departs OpenAI to Launch New Company Aiming at Superintelligence!