AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

8% slightly better overall score

575 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10170 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9069 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8825 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

993 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

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

288% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

5% slightly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

44.96 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

640

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

305th of 586

314th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 950M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in gaming.

The Radeon RX 550 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 550 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950M at 75 W. 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 GTX 950M.