AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (60W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

3968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +1593%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

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

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

4608

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GB206

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

0 nm

3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

60W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 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

9.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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