NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 103% (2475MHz vs 1218MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+2237%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon 550X
1.247 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 40
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1082 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
512
184
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
36 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1247 GFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1247 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.95 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Lexa
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
5 nm
Process Size
14 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
