NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1190MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +3%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

-

768

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

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

29.60 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Pitcairn

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

212 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

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