AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 199.00
$ 261.08 significantly less expensive
$ 460.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

148 points
Identical
148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

8 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS
2 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12413 points
423% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11360 points
381% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2361 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10272 points
340% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2331 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11360 points
239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3346 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

56 GB/s
96% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
Identical
50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s
376% significantly higher pixel rate
3.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s
138% significantly higher texture rate
15.89 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
166% significantly more shading units
192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
100% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

471st of 586
470th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon 550 vs GeForce GT 720 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GT 720 graphics card is better than the Radeon 550 in our tests.

In addition, both the Radeon 550 and the GeForce GT 720 have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 720 is faster than the Radeon 550.

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