GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which has core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 570		4387 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 880 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 169 Watts (338%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 570 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 37312 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 should be much (more or less 25%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8720 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 should be much (more or less 66%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 550, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11680 (66%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.