NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 3 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1190MHz vs 975MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)
AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7870 XT
+63%
2.995 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Nov 2012
GeForce 900
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
925 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
1536
48
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
93.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.995 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
748.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
185W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE
(215-0821122)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
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
