Radeon RX 550 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Lexa
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,211 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
37.86
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126