Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 550 Ti

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 550 Ti
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,170 million
Shaders640vs192
Compute Units10vs4
Core clock1125 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP0 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better