PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU)
vs
MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) and the MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) is based on the AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) and has 640 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, which has 384 shaders and 3 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) GPU MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
Baffin LE GPU Chip GP108-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Pascal
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 3
640 Shader 384
16 Render Output Units 16
40 Texture Units 24
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 48 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.502 GHz
6.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
96 GB/s Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) clocks in the base with up to 1.019 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 is 1.265 GHz.

1.019 GHz Base Clock 1.265 GHz
1.071 GHz Boost Clock 1.518 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) is 60 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 has a TDP of 30 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

60 W TDP 30 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 has 0 -- fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type --
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Passive cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 0 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU).

The MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 supports a maximum of 2 screens.

4 Max. Displays 2
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports --
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) supports a maximum resolution of 5120x2880 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 is 7680x4320 pixels.

5120x2880 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_1
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
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) is 225 mm long, 128 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 is 153 mm long, 69 mm high and 38 mm wide.

225 mm Length 153 mm
128 mm Height 69 mm
38 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 302 g
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 4

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (640SU) was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 79 $.

The MSI GeForce GT 1030 2GH LP OCV1 was introduced in Q2/2017 at a price of 79 $ (Reference).

AXRX 550 4GBD5-DHA Part-no --
Q3/2018 Release date Q2/2017
79 $ Launch Price 79 $ (Reference)
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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