AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP +25%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

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

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

640

Shading Units

448

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GT215

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GT215-400-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

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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