NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +35%

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Apr 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

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

768

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Barts

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

255 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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