NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1201MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +103%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Lexa

GTX 960 OEM

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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