AMD Radeon Pro W5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 914 MHz
  • Around 46% higher boost clock speed: 1450 MHz vs 993 MHz
  • 3212.5x more texture fill rate: 127.6 GTexel/s vs 39.72 GTexel / s
  • 2.2x more pipelines: 1408 vs 640
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 2188
  • Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 2188
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 3289
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 3289
  • 5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 9943 vs 1973
  • 5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 9943 vs 1973
  • 4.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 45724 vs 10348
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 914 MHz
Boost clock speed 1450 MHz vs 993 MHz
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s vs 39.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1408 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 vs 2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 vs 2188
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 vs 3289
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 vs 3289
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9943 vs 1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9943 vs 1973
Geekbench - OpenCL 45724 vs 10348

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

  • Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 85 Watt
  • 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 85 Watt
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
2188
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3289
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3289
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9943
1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9943
1973
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
45724
10348
Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 2188
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 3289
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 3289
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9943 1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9943 1973
Geekbench - OpenCL 45724 10348
PassMark - G3D Mark 2605
PassMark - G2D Mark 264

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Maxwell
Code name Navi 14 GM107
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 399 905
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1450 MHz 993 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 914 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 255.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.166 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.083 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1408 640
Pixel fill rate 46.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s 39.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 1,870 million
Floating-point performance 1,271 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5