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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX 550

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

56% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

16 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20678 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14002 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18970 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19975 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12342 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18555 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16237 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1183 MHz

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

41.31 Gigapixels/s

118% significantly higher pixel rate

18.93 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

37.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

49% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

264th 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 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon RX 550 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 550 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 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 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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