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).

AMD Radeon Pro 555X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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	12691
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	1000	1003
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