NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1206MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (268.8GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 X2 +170%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon RX 570 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

2100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

268.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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