AMD Radeon R7 430 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

Compare AMD Radeon R7 430 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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$ 134.04

$ 120.27 significantly less expensive

$ 254.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points

464 points

127% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

11 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

8 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

12 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

4 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6738 points

12373 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6940 points

13079 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6591 points

11245 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4960 points

12485 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

1100 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

1287 MHz

64% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

28.8 GB/s

112 GB/s

288% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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

6.24 Gigapixels/s

20.6 Gigapixels/s

230% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

18.72 Gigatexels/s

51.48 Gigatexels/s

175% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

512

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% 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

430th of 586

335th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R7 430 vs Radeon RX 550X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 550X beats the Radeon R7 430 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 550X has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 550X also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, both the Radeon R7 430 and the Radeon RX 550X have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 550X over the Radeon R7 430.