AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X +212%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Mar 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

512

Shading Units

128

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G92B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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