AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 3 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1178MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +257%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1664

32

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GM204

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-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

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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