NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +1654%

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

Northern Islands

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

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

768

Shading Units

80

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cedar

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

59 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

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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