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GeForce GTX 880M vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

The GeForce GTX 880M features a GPU core speed of 954 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1536 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator 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 880M 6360 points
Radeon RX 550 3507 points
Difference: 2853 (81%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
GeForce GTX 880M 130 Watts
Difference: 80 Watts (160%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 880M should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 128000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M will be much (approximately 247%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 122112 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 86912 (247%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 880M is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 30528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12928 (73%)

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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 880M Radeon RX 550
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2014 April 2017
Code Name GK104 Polaris 12
Memory 4096 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 954 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 122112 Mtexels/sec 35200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 30528 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 512
Texture Mapping Units 128 32
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 2200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 880M

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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