AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 550X NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X +168%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

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GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Sep 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

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

902 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

144

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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