AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1845MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +184%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT +163%

4915

GeForce GTX 950

1862

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +360%

23

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +115%

43

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +136%

71

GeForce GTX 950

30

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Aug 2015

Navi

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

768

88

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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