GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon 550X

CORE STATE Lexa

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1218 MHz

TDP 50 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX A2000

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1200 MHz

TDP 70 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

8,749

73,310

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,345

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

69,089

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

550X

RTX A2000

Core Specs

Shading Units

512

3,328 +550.0%

Shaders

512

3,328 +550.0%

TMUs

32

104 +225.0%

ROPs

16

48 +200.0%

Compute Units

8

—

SM Count

—

26

Clocks

Base Clock

1082 MHz

562 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

57.60 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,247.2 GFLOPS

7.987 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

77.95 GFLOPS (1:16)

124.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

1,247.2 GFLOPS (1:1)

7.987 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

26

Tensor Cores

—

104

Power

TDP

50 W

70 W

TDP (W)

50

70 +40.0%

Suggested PSU

250 W

250 W

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Lexa

GA106

Generation

Polaris (RX 500X)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

14 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,200 million

12,000 million

Die Size

103 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Samsung

Density

21.4M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

145 mm 5.7 inches

167 mm 6.6 inches

Height

—

69 mm 2.7 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

449 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Polaris

Quadro Turing

Successor

Vega

Workstation Ada

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