AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 225.00
$ 109.00
$ 116.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points
6799% significantly better overall score
9 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

15 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s
250% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
Identical
50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s
294% significantly higher pixel rate
4.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s
294% significantly higher texture rate
9.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
1500% significantly more shading units
32

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
100% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

306th of 586
570th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
3.3

Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce 9500 GT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550 graphics card is better than the GeForce 9500 GT in our tests.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 550 and the GeForce 9500 GT have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 550 over the GeForce 9500 GT.

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