NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +208%

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 950

1869

Radeon R9 290X +110%

3934

GeForce GTX 950

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Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

768

Shading Units

2816

48

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Hawaii

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

290W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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