AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1183MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +99%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM206

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

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

Board Design

50W

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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