AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1620MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +444%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Oct 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

640

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

175W

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

Baffin

GPU Name

TU106

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

123 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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