AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1680MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +432%

6.451 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

GeForce RTX 2060 +523%

7483

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce RTX 2060 +300%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce RTX 2060 +350%

54

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce RTX 2060 +285%

81

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

GeForce RTX 2060 +514%

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce RTX 2060 +442%

76

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce RTX 2060 +450%

110

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 2060 +73%

146

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

512

Shading Units

1920

32

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

TU106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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