NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon 550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon 550, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon 550

Price

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$ 1819.99

$ 199.00

$ 1620.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

33119 points

22277% significantly better overall score

148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

787 FPS

779 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS

378 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

567 FPS

559 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS

318 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points

2997% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10272 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

273214 points

2305% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11360 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2235 MHz

103% significantly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz

113% significantly higher boost clock speed

1183 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

499% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1010 GB/s

1703% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

450 W

50 W

800% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

483.8 Gigapixels/s

2455% significantly higher pixel rate

18.93 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

1290 Gigatexels/s

3307% significantly higher texture rate

37.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

16384

3100% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512

1500% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

2nd of 586

473rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon 550 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the Radeon 550 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly 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 RTX 4090 also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the Radeon 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 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 RTX 4090 is better than the Radeon 550.