Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 660 OEM

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 660 OEM
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGK104 (GK104-200-KD-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs3,540 million
Shaders640vs1152
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock1125 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs40vs96

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 660 OEM
TDP0 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs22 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    19.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    79.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    1896.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better