Radeon RX 550 512SP vs GeForce RTX 2060

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	127	not rated
Place by popularity	20	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	41.03	no data
Power efficiency	15.87	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	TU106	Baffin
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2019 (5 years ago)	13 October 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$349	$79

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1920	512
Core clock speed	1365 MHz	1019 MHz
Boost clock speed	1680 MHz	1071 MHz
Number of transistors	10,800 million	3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	160 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	201.6	34.27
Floating-point processing power	6.451 TFLOPS	1.097 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	16
TMUs	120	32
Tensor Cores	240	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	30	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	229 mm	145 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	96 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

+

no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.5	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 January 2019	13 October 2017
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	160 Watt	50 Watt

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