NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) vs ATI Radeon X550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) and ATI Radeon X550 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

ATI Radeon X550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 7 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 1354 MHz vs 400 MHz
37.3x more texture fill rate: 59.72 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 110 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
14x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 500 MHz
87.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4462 vs 51
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 292 vs 266

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2017 vs 1 July 2005
Core clock speed	1354 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	59.72 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4462 vs 51
PassMark - G2D Mark	292 vs 266

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4462

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

292

266

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)	ATI Radeon X550
PassMark - G3D Mark	4462	51
PassMark - G2D Mark	292	266
Geekbench - OpenCL	16802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	223.683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2085

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)	ATI Radeon X550
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Rage 9
Code name	GP106B	RV370
Launch date	1 February 2017	1 July 2005
Place in performance rating	642	632
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1493 MHz
Core clock speed	1354 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,911 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	59.72 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	4,400 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	112.1 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection