NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R7 240

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1190MHz vs 780MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +266%

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Oland

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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