NV38 and Radeon 550 - video card comparison

NV38

Radeon 550

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

NV38

Lexa

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

April 2017

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

1183 MHz

Core clock speed

-

1100 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

135 million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

512

Power consumption (TDP)

-

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

37.86

Memory type

-

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

-

2 GB

Memory bus width

-

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

7 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

-

56 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

9.0a

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

1.5 (full) Shader Model

-6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3