GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon 550X
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1218 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 960
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
550X
GTX 960
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
1,024
+100.0%
Shaders
512
1,024
+100.0%
TMUs
32
64
+100.0%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
8
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1082 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
2,048
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,247.2 GFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
77.95 GFLOPS (1:16)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
1,247.2 GFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
50 W
120 W
TDP (W)
50
120
+140.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
300 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Lexa
GM206
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500X)
GeForce 900
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
2,940 million
Die Size
103 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
21.4M / mm²
12.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
145 mm
5.7 inches
241 mm
9.5 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
199 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Polaris
GeForce 700
Successor
Vega
GeForce 10