AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 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 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1071MHz vs 1058MHz)

Lower TDP (60W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +137%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

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GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Apr 2013

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GK104

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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