AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA NVS 300

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 512MB VRAM NVS 300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP +3415%

1.371 TFLOPS

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

NVS 300

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2011

Polaris

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT218

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GT218-670-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

18W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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