NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1203MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 OEM +395%

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

937 MHz

Base Clock

-

1203 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

76.99 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

2.464 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

76.99 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

106W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

RV670

950 OEM

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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