AMD Radeon Pro 555X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 555X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 555X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 73% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 49.593 vs 28.659
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 16 July 2018 vs 26 November 2015
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.593 vs 28.659

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 907 MHz
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 768
  • Around 37% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 5100 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 35.283
  • Around 33% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 890.785 vs 668.308
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1176 MHz vs 907 MHz
Pipelines 1024 vs 768
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz vs 5100 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 vs 35.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 vs 668.308

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 555X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
35.283
76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
668.308
890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
49.593
28.659
Name AMD Radeon Pro 555X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL 12707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 35.283 76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 668.308 890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.593 28.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 170.952
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 555X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Polaris 21 GM206
Launch date 16 July 2018 26 November 2015
Place in performance rating 999 1002
Type Mobile workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 907 MHz 1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 768 1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 2,940 million
Boost clock speed 1201 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s

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 None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5100 MHz 7012 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.2 GB / s