GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon RX 550 512SP - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon RX 550 512SP
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Baffin
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2016
October 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
300 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI
-
-
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1392 MHz
1071 MHz
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
58.20
34.27
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
2.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-