AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA T400 4GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA T400 4GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA T400 4GB

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 175.99

$ 49.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

844 points

35% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

22 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

14 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

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

16489 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

17184 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

16244 points

0.04% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

161% significantly higher core clock speed

420 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

1425 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

30 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

22.8 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

34.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

33% slightly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

305th of 586

273rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2021 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 T400 4GB comparison

For gaming, the T400 4GB graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the T400 4GB has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the T400 4GB has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 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 T400 4GB over the Radeon RX 550.