Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce GT 1030
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550X |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GT 1030 |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 550X
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 550X | | GeForce GT 1030 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Lexa (Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)) | vs | GP108 (GP108-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 103 mm² | vs | 74 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,200 million | vs | 1,800 million |
| Shaders | 512 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 1100 MHz | vs | 1228 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 550X | | GeForce GT 1030 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 550X | | GeForce GT 1030 | |
|---|
| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 30 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Apr 2018 | vs | 17 May 2017 |
Radeon RX 550X
18.93 GP/s
GeForce GT 1030
23.49 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550X
37.86 GT/s
GeForce GT 1030
35.23 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550X
112.00 GB/s
GeForce GT 1030
48.06 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 550X
1211.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 1030
1127.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better