AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1183MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +168%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Mar 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GK104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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