AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

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AMD Radeon RX 550X NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1380MHz vs 1183MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X +71%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

0.706 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

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GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1380 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

256

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.04 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.08 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

706.6 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

29.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP108

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP108-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

20W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 2.0

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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