GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with GPU core speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 512 Stream Processors, 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 should in theory perform 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 will be much (more or less 136%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 will be much (approximately 170%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 550, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.