GeForce GTX 950 LP and Radeon 550 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Radeon 550
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2016
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1183 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
57.02
37.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
7 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
105.8 GB/s
56 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_0)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3