ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB is based on the AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) and has 640 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, which has 1024 shaders and 8 execution units.
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Baffin LE GPU Chip GM206-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
640 Shader 1024
16 Render Output Units 32
40 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
6.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
96 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB clocks in the base with up to 1.019 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 1.127 GHz.

1.019 GHz Base Clock 1.127 GHz
1.071 GHz Boost Clock 1.178 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB is 60 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

60 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB supports a maximum resolution of 5120x2880 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 4096x2160 pixels.

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

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB is 192 mm long, 115 mm high and 39 mm wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 241 mm long, -- high and -- wide.

192 mm Length 241 mm
115 mm Height --
39 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 4GB was released in Q1/2018 at a price of 79 $.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 was introduced in Q1/2015 at a price of 199 $.

PH-RX550-4G Part-no --
Q1/2018 Release date Q1/2015
79 $ Launch Price 199 $
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)

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4 GB GDDR5
9 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

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4 GB GDDR5
18 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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4 GB GDDR5
25 fps (avg)

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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