NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1545MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +289%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

768

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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