GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 512 SPUs along with 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 1070 Ti		19808 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 16301 (465%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (260%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is 129% quicker than the Radeon RX 550 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 147456 (129%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be much (more or less 594%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 209064 (594%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be much (about 484%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 550, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 85248 (484%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.