AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

464 points
630 points
35% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS
12 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS
10 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
9 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10030 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

13079 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
9370 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10013 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12485 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9122 points

Specifications

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
249% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32.03 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
45 W
11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s
42% slightly higher pixel rate
14.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s
42% slightly higher texture rate
36.08 Gigatexels/s

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

40
Identical
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

334th of 586
304th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce GTX 850M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 850M GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 550X in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 850M has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550X at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 850M over the Radeon RX 550X.

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