AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 129.95

$ 95.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

695 points

11% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18838 points

306% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10713 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10201 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19855 points

328% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9924 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1228 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

1468 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

30 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

23.49 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

33% slightly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

306th of 586

291st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2017 May

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

Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GT 1030 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 1030 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 1030 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 GT 1030 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.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 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 Radeon RX 550 is better than the GeForce GT 1030.