AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 69W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP +433%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Nov 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

69W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GT215

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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