AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP 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 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1076MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +342%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2816

40

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

96

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

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

Baffin

GPU Name

GM200

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

8 billion

123 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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