AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1183MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 106W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 550
+101%
1.211 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 450
0.601 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 550
+385%
1194
GeForce GTS 450
246
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 550
+410%
546
GeForce GTS 450
107
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Sep 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
902 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.73GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
512
Shading Units
192
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.93 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
1211 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1211 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
601.3 GFLOPS
75.71 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
50.11 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
106W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
GF106
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
GF106-250-KA-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Fermi
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
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
