ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
vs
ASUS GeForce GTX 950


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has 640 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.07 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.37 TFLOPS.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 has 768 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.23 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.89 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS GeForce GTX 950 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 6 execution units.
ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB GPU ASUS GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Baffin LE GPU Chip GM206-250-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 6
640 Shader 768
16 Render Output Units 32
40 Texture Units 48
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.653GHz.

2 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.653 GHz
6.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.6 Gbps
96 GB/s Memory bandwidth 106 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has a turbo clock of 1.071 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS GeForce GTX 950 is 1.228 GHz.

1.019 GHz Base Clock 1.051 GHz
1.071 GHz Boost Clock 1.228 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 80 °C.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

60 W TDP 90 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 2 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

5120x2880 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS GeForce GTX 950 is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

192 mm Length 210 mm
115 mm Height 111 mm
39 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB was released in Q4/2017.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 published in Q1/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

AREZ-PH-RX550-2G Part-no GTX950-2G
Q4/2017 Release date Q1/2016
79 $ (Reference) Launch Price 149 $
14 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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