GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with a core clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 8852 (252%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be much faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (about 242%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85280 (242%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (about 311%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 550, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54688 (311%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.