AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +30%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF110

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF110-380-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

244W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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