AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 114.79 significantly less expensive

$ 339.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

6694 points

977% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

161 FPS

145 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

77 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

113 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

61 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

2309 points

94% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

101567 points

722% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

99687 points

513% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1925 MHz

75% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

2075 MHz

75% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

288 GB/s

157% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

300% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

601% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

908% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

5888

1049% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

475% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

307th of 586

73rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX 4060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly 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 GeForce RTX 4060 also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 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 GeForce RTX 4060 is better than the Radeon RX 550.