GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX 950 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1216MHz vs 1203MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 950 OEM Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980
+102%
4981
GeForce GTX 950 OEM
2464
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2016
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
937 MHz
1216 MHz
Boost Clock
1203 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
2048
Shading Units
1024
128
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
77.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.50 GPixel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.99 GTexel/s
4.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.464 TFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.99 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GM206S
GM204-400-A1
GPU Variant
950 OEM
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
