NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP 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 12% (1201MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +124%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/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

17.14 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 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

Baffin

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

123 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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