AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1201MHz vs 1071MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +79%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Nov 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM206

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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