AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1188MHz vs 1071MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +66%

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Aug 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GM206

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

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

6.4

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