NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265X OEM 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 late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1188MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265X OEM +29%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon R7 265X OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1188 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

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Curacao

GM206-250-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

Board Design

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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