NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 VS AMD Radeon RX 550X
nvidia
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory768
Cores105.8 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 950
amd
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory512
Cores96 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon RX 550X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
GeForce GTX 950
$159 • Aug 2015
Radeon RX 550X
$ • Dec 2018
AMD Radeon RX 550X
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 | AMD Radeon RX 550X |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 90 W | 50 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1188 MHz | 1183 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 105.8 GB/s | 96 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 14nm |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 4.0 |
| Shading Units | 768 | 512 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 48 | 32 |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1653 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 38.02 GPixel/s | 18.93 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 105.8 GTexel/s | 96 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 1.825 GFLOPS | 1 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 1.00 MB | 0.50 MB |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | 103 mm² |
| Transistors | 2940 Million | 2200 Million |
| Required PSU | 250 W | 250 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | None |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| DirectX | 12.1 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | GlobalFoundries |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon RX 550X
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon RX 550X
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon RX 550X
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon RX 550X
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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It's a Tie!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA • 2GB GDDR5
AMD Radeon RX 550X
AMD • 4GB GDDR5
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