AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, 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

167% significantly better overall score

232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 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

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

290% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3590 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

346% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3564 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3852 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

310% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3955 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

141% significantly higher pixel rate

7.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

31.36 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

Identical

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

306th of 586

407th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

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 740M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 740M in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M 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 740M.

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