NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1683MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +254%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 +224%

6066

GeForce GTX 950

1869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070 +420%

26

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070 +150%

50

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070 +156%

77

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce GTX 1070

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GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

768

120

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM206

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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