NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 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

Lower TDP (90W vs 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +337%

7.987 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Capsaicin

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.0

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