AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 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 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1188MHz vs 1183MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +50%

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1202

GeForce GTX 950 +55%

1869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550 +20%

6

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce GTX 950 +66%

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce GTX 950 +42%

30

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM206

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

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

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 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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