NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260X
+7%
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
-
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
896
48
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
115W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Bonaire
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
