Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 560

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 560
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2011
GeForce GTX 560

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGF114 (GF114-325-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,950 million
Shaders640vs336
Compute Units10vs7
Core clock1125 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 560
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 560
TDP0 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs17 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    11.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    45.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560
    1089.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better