AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +793%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

116W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GF116

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

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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