NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R9 380 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 OEM 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 10 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
Lower TDP (75W vs 190W)
AMD Radeon R9 380 OEM 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 380 OEM
+79%
3.29 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
Pirate 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
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/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
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.38 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
102.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.290 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.290 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
205.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
190W
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
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Antigua
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
Antigua PRO
(215-0877000)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
5 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
366 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
