AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550X Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 924 MHz
Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 1287 MHz vs 950 MHz
846.7x more texture fill rate: 51.48 GTexel/s vs 60.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 1 January 2016
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 924 MHz
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz vs 950 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s vs 60.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
1179.4x better floating-point performance: 1,946 gflops vs 1.65 TFLOPs

Pipelines	1024 vs 640
Floating-point performance	1,946 gflops vs 1.65 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2522
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2522
Geekbench - OpenCL	10472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		917.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.351
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		37.323
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		86.304

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Lexa	GM206
Design	Radeon 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	1 January 2016
Place in performance rating	1181	1184
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz	950 MHz
Compute units	8/10
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	924 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.65 TFLOPs	1,946 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640	1024
Pixel fill rate	20.60 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512/640
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s	60.8 GTexel / s
Texture Units	40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	2,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	56 GB/s	80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support