AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition 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 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 43% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 771 MHz
• Around 48% higher boost clock speed: 1183 MHz vs 797 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 122 Watt
• Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
• Around 1% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 33.507 vs 33.184
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1037.305 vs 1002.196
• Around 11% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 140.911 vs 126.579
• 38.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4485 vs 117
• 8.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 940 vs 108.2
• 18x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2158 vs 119.7

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

• 2.7x more texture fill rate: 102.0 GTexel / s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
• 3x more pipelines: 1536 vs 512
• 2040x better floating-point performance: 2,448 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
• Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.261 vs 3.064
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 54.752 vs 52.533
• Around 54% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6912 vs 4485
• 7.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 6710 vs 940
• 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 6703 vs 2158

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	33.507 33.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1037.305 1002.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.064 3.261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	52.533 54.752
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	140.911 126.579
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 6912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 6710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 6703
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 108.2
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 119.7

Compare specifications (specs)