AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1216MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +311%

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

GeForce GTX 980 +260%

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce GTX 980 +200%

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce GTX 980 +191%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce GTX 980 +195%

62

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce GTX 980 +19%

100

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

165W

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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM204

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

398 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

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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