Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGP107 (GP107-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs132 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs3,300 million
Shaders640vs768
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock1125 MHzvs1290 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
TDP0 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs25 Oct 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better