AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1379MHz vs 1183MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +14%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550 +93%

1200

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

619

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550 +200%

6

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550 +71%

12

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550 +75%

21

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550 +600%

7

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +21%

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +10%

22

Radeon RX 550

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

512

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

20W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP108

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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