AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 131% (2475MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +2557%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Apr 2023

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

512

Shading Units

5888

32

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

AD104

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

3 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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