AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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 130W)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 84% (2175MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +2107%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2023

Polaris

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

160bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

6144

32

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

AD104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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