AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop, 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

2281 points

8% slightly better overall score

2105 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

49 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

19 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

173% significantly higher Blender score

142.83 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35193 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

31071 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

1665 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

23 W

704% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

53.28 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

106.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

81% significantly better floating point performance

3.41 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

125% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

191st of 586

202nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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 580 vs T550 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 580 beats the T550 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 580 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the T550 Laptop has a slightly 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.

In addition, the T550 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 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 580 is better than the T550 Laptop.