NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

AMD Radeon HD 6230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 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 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +1657%

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

Radeon HD 6230

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

-

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

768

Shading Units

80

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Park

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

Park S3 LP

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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