NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +49%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Mar 2010

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

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

768

Shading Units

1600

48

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cypress

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

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

228W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-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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