Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 550 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1379MHz vs 1183MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 550
+14%
1211
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 550
+87%
1194
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 550
+208%
546
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 550
+200%
6
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 550
+71%
12
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 550
+75%
21
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 550
+600%
7
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 550
14
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+21%
17
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 550
20
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+10%
22
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Mar 2018
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1100 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1183 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
112.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
3
512
Shading Units
384
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
18.93 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
1211 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
1211 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
75.71 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
20W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
GP108
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
