AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1183 MHz vs 1176 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
• 2.8x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 2500 MHz
• Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 476 vs 245
• Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11610 vs 10985
• Around 30% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1037.305 vs 795.325
• Around 1% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 52.533 vs 51.794

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

• Around 24% higher texture fill rate: 47.04 GTexel / s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
• Around 25% higher pipelines: 640 vs 512
• 1254.2x better floating-point performance: 1,505 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
• Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3366 vs 2690
• Around 62% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 54.294 vs 33.507
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.692 vs 3.064
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 174.513 vs 140.911
• Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5264 vs 4485
• 4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3714 vs 940
• Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 2158
• Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5264 vs 4485
• 4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3714 vs 940
• Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 2158
• 9.7x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1231 vs 127

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 3366
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	476 245
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	11610 10985
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	33.507 54.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1037.305 795.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.064 3.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	52.533 51.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	140.911 174.513
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	127 1231

Compare specifications (specs)