Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific 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 1080 Ti		27629 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 24122 (688%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be 332% quicker than the Radeon RX 550 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 380928 (332%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is a lot (about 842%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 296320 (842%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 550, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 112640 (640%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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.