GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon RX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 550 Ti Advantages
Lower TDP (116W vs 185W)
Radeon RX 580 Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1340MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
2112 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
691
Radeon RX 580
+793%
6175
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 500
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1257 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1340 MHz
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
4
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
2304
32
TMUs
144
24
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.88 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
193.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.175 TFLOPS
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.175 TFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
385.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
116W
TDP
185W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
Polaris 20
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
(215-0910038)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
