GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which features GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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

Radeon RX 550		3507 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 477 (16%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 should theoretically be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13440 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 should be much (more or less 29%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10160 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is superior to the Radeon RX 550, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8320 (47%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 maximum fill rate.