Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 550 Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1183MHz vs 1058MHz)
Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 550
1211
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+168%
3250
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Apr 2013
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1100 MHz
Base Clock
1006 MHz
1183 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 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
8
Compute Units
-
512
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
18.93 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
1211 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1211 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
75.71 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
195W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
GK104
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
GK104-400-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
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
