Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 560 SE

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 560 SE
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Feb 2012
GeForce GTX 560 SE
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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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 SE

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 SE
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGF114 (GF114-200-KB-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,950 million
Shaders640vs288
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock1125 MHzvs736 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs40vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 560 SE
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs957 MHz
3828 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 560 SE
TDP0 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs20 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 SE
    8.83 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 SE
    35.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 SE
    91.90 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 SE
    847.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better