AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1218MHz vs 980MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670 +111%

2.634 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1344

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GK104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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