GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which features core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units 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 570		4387 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 880 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 169 Watts (338%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 570 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 37312 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 is a lot (about 25%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8720 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 is a lot (about 66%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11680 (66%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.