AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1683MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +433%

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1202

GeForce GTX 1070 +404%

6066

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce GTX 1070 +333%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce GTX 1070 +316%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce GTX 1070 +266%

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

GeForce GTX 1070 +514%

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce GTX 1070 +464%

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce GTX 1070 +400%

100

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce GTX 1070 +76%

148

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1920

32

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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