NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2475MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +2307%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +1388%

17861

Radeon RX 550

1200

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +1266%

82

Radeon RX 550

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +1233%

160

Radeon RX 550

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +1119%

256

Radeon RX 550

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +1300%

98

Radeon RX 550

7

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +1128%

172

Radeon RX 550

14

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +900%

200

Radeon RX 550

20

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +126%

190

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 4070

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Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

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

18.93 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Lexa

AD104-250-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

295 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

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 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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