GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 550, which features a clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 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

Radeon RX 550		3507 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 41 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (240%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be 12% quicker than the Radeon RX 550 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13568 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be a lot (more or less 49%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17408 (49%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 49%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8704 (49%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum 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 higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.