NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 late
Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1190MHz vs 933MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280
+82%
3.344 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
827 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
1792
48
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
200W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
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
