AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 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 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 51% higher texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel / s vs 25.1 billion / sec
• 2.7x more pipelines: 512 vs 192
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 106 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• 3.9x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz
• 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2690 vs 1322
• Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 476 vs 310
• 2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11610 vs 4907
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 33.507 vs 14.758
• 3.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1037.305 vs 302.509
• 3.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.064 vs 0.965
• 3.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 52.533 vs 14.925
• 5.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 140.911 vs 27.656
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4485 vs 2160
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4485 vs 2160

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

• Around 42% higher core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 1100 MHz
• 501.1x better floating-point performance: 601.3 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
• 3.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3365 vs 940
• Around 54% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 2158
• 3.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3365 vs 940
• Around 54% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 2158

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 1322
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	476 310
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	11610 4907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	33.507 14.758
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1037.305 302.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.064 0.965
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	52.533 14.925
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	140.911 27.656
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 3325

Compare specifications (specs)