NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

70% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

77% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1190 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14002 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12342 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16237 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1100 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1183 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

0.09% slightly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

18.93 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

37.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

25% slightly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

305th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 550 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 550 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 550 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q is faster than the Radeon RX 550.