NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1203MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +21%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

937 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1203 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

76.99 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

2.464 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

76.99 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

Tahiti

950 OEM

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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