AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

Radeon RX 550

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2006

Polaris

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

NV43

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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