AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1785MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +315%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1408

32

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

TU116

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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