AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and NVIDIA GeForce 810A 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 42% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 775 MHz
  • 3.1x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 512 vs 192
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.9x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2723 vs 655
  • Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 480 vs 277
  • 6.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11659 vs 1828
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 22 July 2014
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate 37.86 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 512 vs 192
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2723 vs 655
PassMark - G2D Mark 480 vs 277
Geekbench - OpenCL 11659 vs 1828

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 810A

  • 248x better floating-point performance: 297.6 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 810A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2723
655
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
480
277
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
11659
1828
Name AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce 810A
PassMark - G3D Mark 2723 655
PassMark - G2D Mark 480 277
Geekbench - OpenCL 11659 1828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1199

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Kepler 2.0
Code name Lexa GK208
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 22 July 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $79
Place in performance rating 861 863
Price now $75
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 59.51

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1183 MHz
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 775 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs 297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 512 192
Texture fill rate 37.86 GTexel / s 12.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 2,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
Length 145 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)