AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M, 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

621 points
191% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points
307% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3437 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points
425% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3025 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points
277% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3269 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points
360% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3524 points

Specifications

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
677% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
33 W
51% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s
229% significantly higher pixel rate
5.75 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s
64% significantly higher texture rate
23.01 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

32
Identical
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

308th of 586
425th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2014 March

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

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GT 730M comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 is better than the GeForce GT 730M.

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