GeForce GTX 950 LP and Radeon RX 550 512SP - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Radeon RX 550 512SP
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Baffin
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2016
October 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1071 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
57.02
34.27
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
105.8 GB/s
96 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_0)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2