AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M, 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
318% significantly better overall score
111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS
6 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
1 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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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points
475% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2151 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points
415% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2182 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
288% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
35 W
42% much lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s
680% significantly higher pixel rate
2.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s
387% significantly higher texture rate
10.56 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
433% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
150% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
300% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

334th of 586
501st 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
2012 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR3

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 NVS 5400M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550X graphics card is better than the NVS 5400M in our tests.

In addition, the NVS 5400M has a much lower TDP at 35 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 550X over the NVS 5400M.

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