AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1203MHz vs 1183MHz)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM +103%

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Jan 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/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

38.50 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 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

GM206S

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

950 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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