AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 1594.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

33119 points

5233% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

787 FPS

771 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

382 FPS

368 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

567 FPS

550 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

318 FPS

309 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

9236 points

676% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

318192 points

2478% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

273214 points

1582% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

2235 MHz

103% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

2520 MHz

113% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

1010 GB/s

801% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

800% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

2455% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

3307% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

16384

3100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512

1500% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

308th of 586

2nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

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 4090 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the Radeon RX 550 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the Radeon RX 550.