NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 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 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1203MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

224 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 OEM +83%

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

1024

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

76.99 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

2.464 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

76.99 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

Barts

950 OEM

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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