AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

A2 +274%

4.531 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Nov 2021

Polaris

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA107

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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