AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

612 points
4% slightly better overall score
584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

13 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 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

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points
3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1155 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18838 points
284% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
4900 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
11550 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
10627 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19855 points
305% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
4900 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
11127 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz
7% slightly higher core clock speed
1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz
9% slightly higher boost clock speed
1085 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s
39% slightly higher memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
49% significantly lower TDP
75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s
9% slightly higher pixel rate
17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s
43.4 Gigatexels/s
14% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
640
25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
40
25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

311th of 592
314th of 592

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

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