NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1218MHz vs 1190MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +46%

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Lexa

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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