GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 550, which has core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 239 Watts (478%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 295, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 109088 (95%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 is much (more or less 162%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56960 (162%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14656 (83%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.