NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
vs
XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 and the XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2GB and has 640 texture shaders and 5 execution units.

XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design is based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa), which has 512 shaders and 8 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2GB Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa)
GP107-300-A1 GPU Chip Lexa PRO
Pascal Architecture GCN 4
5 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
640 Shader 512
32 Render Output Units 16
40 Texture Units 32
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 has 2 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

2 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.752 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 clocks in the base with up to 1.354 GHz. The base frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design is 1.100 GHz.

1.354 GHz Base Clock 1.100 GHz
1.455 GHz Boost Clock 1.203 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 is 75 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design has a TDP of 50 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

75 W TDP 50 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 has a total of 0 Axial fans.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 1 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 3 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design supports a maximum of 4 screens.

3 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design is 5120x2880 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_1 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 is 145 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design is 170 mm long, 121 mm high and 21 mm wide.

145 mm Length 170 mm
111 mm Height 121 mm
-- Width 21 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 109 $ (Reference).

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design was introduced in Q4/2017 at a price of 79 $.

-- Part-no RX-550P4TFG5
Q3/2016 Release date Q4/2017
109 $ (Reference) Launch Price 79 $
14 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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