AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580X 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

2318 points

10% 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

35 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

19 FPS

Identical

19 FPS

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35193 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

189th of 586

202nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

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

4.6

Radeon RX 580X vs T550 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580X GPU is faster than the T550 Laptop in gaming.

The Radeon RX 580X 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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