GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which features a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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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 960		7627 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 4120 (117%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 550 is 2% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 2688 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be quite a bit (more or less 105%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36928 (105%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the Radeon RX 550, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18464 (105%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.