AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
187.4x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 202.0 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 150 Watt
218.8x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 8 GB/s

Launch date	20 Apr 2017 vs 10 June 2016
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 202.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 8 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 42% higher boost clock speed: 1683 MHz vs 1183 MHz
3.8x more pipelines: 1920 vs 512
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 847 vs 463
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13497 vs 2027

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1683 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Pipelines	1920 vs 512
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	847 vs 463
PassMark - G3D Mark	13497 vs 2027

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

463

847

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2027

13497

Name	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)
PassMark - G2D Mark	463	847
PassMark - G3D Mark	2027	13497
Geekbench - OpenCL		47331
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		150.951
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1718.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		710.366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6066

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Pascal
Code name	Lexa	GP104
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	10 June 2016
Place in performance rating	285	284
Launch price (MSRP)		$379
Price now		$359.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		45.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1683 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	1920
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	202.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	7,200 million
CUDA cores		1920
Floating-point performance		6,463 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		94 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width		2-slot
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	256 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	8 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality