NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1190MHz vs 925MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 270
+29%
2.368 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
1280
48
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Curacao
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
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
