Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 950
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Polaris 12 (Baffin XT) | vs | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 2,940 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 768 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 1125 MHz | vs | 1024 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 90 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2017 | vs | 20 Aug 2015 |
Radeon RX 550
20.83 GP/s
GeForce GTX 950
32.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
52.10 GT/s
GeForce GTX 950
49.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
112.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 950
105.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
1666.60 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 950
1572.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better