AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1680MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +488%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jan 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1920

32

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

TU106

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon 660M vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

2

AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

4

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

5

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

8

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

9

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

10

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Related News

1

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

2

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

3

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

4

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

5

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

6

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales

7

Do You Really Know What a "Rendering Engine" Is? Read This Article to Understand All About It

8

New AMD Zen5 Ryzen 9000 Motherboards X870E/X870 to Adopt USB4! But You’ll Have to Wait Two More Months

9

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

10

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower