Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GT 720

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 720

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 550

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 550

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 720
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistorsunknownvsunknown
Shaders640vs192
Compute Units10vs1
Core clock1125 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 720
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 720
TDP0 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better