Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 295

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 295
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 295

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 295

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Radeon RX 550

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 550

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 295
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGT200B (G200-400-B3)
Fab Process14 nmvs55 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs470 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,400 million
Shaders640vs240
Compute Units10vs10
Core clock1125 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs16vs28
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 295
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs448 bit x2
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 295
TDP0 wattsvs289 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs8 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 295
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 295
    92.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 295
    224.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 295
    1192.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better