GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 550, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 4120 (117%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 550 should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 2688 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be much (approximately 105%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36928 (105%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be a lot (approximately 105%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18464 (105%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.