AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 135% (2520MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +2840%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jan 2025

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

532.6GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

50

512

Shading Units

6400

32

TMUs

200

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

40 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GB205

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GB205

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

4 nm

3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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