Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560 Ti
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,950 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock1125 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP0 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better