NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 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

1966 points

216% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

145% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1190 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14002 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12342 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16237 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1100 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1183 MHz

5% 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

160 GB/s

42% much higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

42% much lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

90% significantly higher pixel rate

18.93 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

90% significantly higher texture rate

37.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

100% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

211th of 586

306th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 550 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 550 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 Radeon RX 550 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 GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has a much lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 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 1650 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 550.