AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1190MHz vs 1071MHz)

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

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +33%

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

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GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Mar 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 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

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GM206

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GM206-251-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

Board Design

60W

TDP

75W

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

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

6.4

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