Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce GTX 1050
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550X |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 1050 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce GTX 1050
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 550X | | GeForce GTX 1050 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Lexa (Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)) | vs | GP107 (GP107-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 103 mm² | vs | 132 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,200 million | vs | 3,300 million |
| Shaders | 512 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 1100 MHz | vs | 1354 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 550X | | GeForce GTX 1050 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 550X | | GeForce GTX 1050 | |
|---|
| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Apr 2018 | vs | 25 Oct 2016 |
Radeon RX 550X
18.93 GP/s
GeForce GTX 1050
43.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550X
37.86 GT/s
GeForce GTX 1050
54.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550X
112.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 1050
112.10 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 550X
1211.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 1050
1733.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better