AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB, 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

4% slightly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

11 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

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

1232 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12257 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11578 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

0.27% slightly higher core clock speed

1097 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

0.60% slightly higher boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

30% slightly lower TDP

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

0.58% slightly higher pixel rate

18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

47.04 Gigatexels/s

24% 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

306th of 586

310th 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 960M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming.

In our comparison, 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 550 over the GeForce GTX 960M.