NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1600MHz vs 1190MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+617%
13.11 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
179
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+314%
742
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
1382 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
128bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
4096
48
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Vega 10
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX AIR
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
