Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 570

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 570

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 570
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGF110 (GF110-275-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs3,000 million
Shaders640vs480
Compute Units10vs15
Core clock1125 MHzvs732 MHz
ROPs16vs40
TMUs40vs60

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 570
TDP0 wattsvs219 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs7 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better