AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 1028.25 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

Identical

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

30 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

18 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

14 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

1841 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18838 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7421 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

14780 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14358 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19855 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6454 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

15314 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

16269 points

0.20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

239% significantly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

27.44 Gigapixels/s

44% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

190% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1344

162% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

250% 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

307th of 586

306th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 670 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 670 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 550 has a slightly 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 550 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 670 at 170 W. 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 550 over the GeForce GTX 670.