AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Price

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$ 254.31

$ 54.90

$ 199.41 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

464 points

283% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points

501% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points

330% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

719 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1287 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

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

774% significantly higher memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

33 W

51% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s

579% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s

324% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

166% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% 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

337th of 586

489th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce GT 720M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550X graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 720M in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 550X 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 550X also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GT 720M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550X at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 550X is better than the GeForce GT 720M.