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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1379MHz vs 1183MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)
Radeon 550 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Radeon 550 +14%
1211

Graphics Card

Mar 2018
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 10
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz
Base Clock
1100 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
56.00GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
8
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
512
24
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1211 GFLOPS
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1211 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GP108
GPU Name
Lexa
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO (215-0904018)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
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