GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which has a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, 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 470		2937 points
	Difference: 570 (19%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (330%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 470 should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 19232 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be a bit (more or less 4%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1208 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be quite a bit (more or less 38%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 550, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6680 (38%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.