AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +11%

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

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

924 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

480

32

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF100

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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