AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

400 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP +120%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

240

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GT200

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

236W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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