GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs Radeon RX 5500

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking246not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.39no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameNavi 14GM206
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)1 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$159

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1408768
Core clock speedno data1026 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHz1190 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate162.457.12
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS1.828 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8848

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length180 mm202 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1653 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s105.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 1 March 2016
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 75 Watt

RX 5500 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 950 Low Power, on the other hand, has 46.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 and GeForce GTX 950 Low Power. We've got no test results to judge.


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