AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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 184W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1650MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +492%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Dec 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

34

512

Shading Units

2176

32

TMUs

136

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

184W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

TU106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

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

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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