AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 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 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +94%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

512

Shading Units

240

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

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 Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT200

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

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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