AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +33%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

336

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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