AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1178MHz vs 1071MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +76%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

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

37.70 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GM206

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GM206-300-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

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 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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