AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +103%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2009

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

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

512

Shading Units

240

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

289W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT200B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

470 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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