AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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

Released 1 years and 5 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1201MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +103%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

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 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

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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