NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

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

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AMD Radeon RX 550X

Price

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$ 206.47

$ 47.84 slightly less expensive

$ 254.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

213% significantly better overall score

464 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12373 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

13079 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11245 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12485 points

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

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1287 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

116% significantly higher pixel rate

20.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

51.48 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

20% slightly 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

237th of 586

337th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2018 March

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 550X specs and performance

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

Our database shows that 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. 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 550X has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is better than the Radeon RX 550X.