Radeon RX 550 and GeForce GTX 950 LP - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Lexa
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
March 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
1188 MHz
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
1024 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,211 gflops
1,825 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
768
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
57.02
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12.0
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-