GeForce GTX 880M vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 512 Stream Processors, 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 880M		6360 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 2853 (81%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 880M		130 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (160%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 880M should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		128000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M should be a lot (approximately 247%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		122112 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86912 (247%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M should be quite a bit (about 73%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		30528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12928 (73%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's 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 better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.