AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4 GB, 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

1029 points

65% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

23 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

1673 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18838 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6570 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

13578 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12985 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19855 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

11467 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

14136 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

14394 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1032 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

24.77 Gigapixels/s

30% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

99.07 Gigatexels/s

161% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1152

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

200% 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

306th of 586

262nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2016 November

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 760 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 760 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 550 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 Radeon RX 550 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 760 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 GeForce GTX 760 over the Radeon RX 550.