AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP +187%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

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

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

192

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GT200

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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