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GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

The GeForce GT 1030 features a core clock frequency of 1265 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also features a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030 30 Watts
Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 550, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030 49152 MB/sec
Difference: 65536 (133%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 will be a bit (approximately 15%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030 40480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 5280 (15%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the Radeon RX 550, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030 20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2640 (15%)

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 GT 1030 Radeon RX 550
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2017 April 2017
Code Name GP108-300 Polaris 12
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1265 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 30 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 49152 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 40480 Mtexels/sec 35200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20240 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 512
Texture Mapping Units 32 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 14 nm
Transistors 3300 million 2200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 1030

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Comments

2 Responses to “GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 550”
DD says:

Radeon RX 550 is x8 not x16 and it has a 4GB version with slightly higher TDP of 65w

Pola says:

Hello, i need to know if this graphics card MSI Radeon RX 550 2GB Aero ITX OC supports HDCP 2.2 and play at resolution 3840x2160 60hz and if these cards also MSI Radeon RX 460 2GB OC or MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GB or other and you reccomend me to choose for connecting on 4K UHDTV hdr HDMI v 2.0b HDCP 2.2 compatible mainly for watching movies with mpc-hc in an old pc desktop psu 450 watt, proccessor amd athlon II x4 640 , 4gb ram , i am not interest for games and must have the above i mentioned. Thanks in advance

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