NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R9 390

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

AMD Radeon R9 390

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 +180%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

Radeon R9 390

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Jun 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

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

-

768

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

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

160.0 GTexel/s

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Grenada

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs ATI Radeon HD 5730

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA B200 SXM 192 GB

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10 GB

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA CMP 90HX

Related News

1

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

2

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

3

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

4

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

5

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

6

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

7

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

8

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

9

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

10

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers