NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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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AMD Radeon RX 550

Price

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$ 199.40

$ 20.58 slightly less expensive

$ 219.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14 %

75% significantly better overall score

8 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

20 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

21 FPS

22 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2339

96% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1188

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834

18838

140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14002

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15900

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834

21441

173% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19745

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13177

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20383

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

15900

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

17% 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

44.54 Gigapixels/s

135% significantly higher pixel rate

18.93 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

76% 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

158th of 549

213th of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

October 2016

April 2017

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 550 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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 Ti is faster than the Radeon RX 550.