NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 and 9 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +208%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Jun 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

-

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

768

Shading Units

2816

48

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

580W

250 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Hawaii

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

438 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

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