GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 550, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1650, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 16384 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 should be quite a bit (more or less 136%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47960 (136%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1650 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29920 (170%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.