AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1183MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +400%

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +379%

5754

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +300%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +275%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +257%

75

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +42%

120

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2816

32

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

96

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM200

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

601 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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