NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (90W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +14%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

768

Shading Units

1440

48

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Hemlock

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

302W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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